Psychological Test, Teaching Aptitude Test
date: label: date made
content: 1927
name: label: author
content: Moss, Fred A.
label: author
content: Hunt, T.
label: author
content: Wallace, F. C.
label: publisher
content: Center for Psychological Service
notes: label: Description
content: During the 1920s American psychologists proposed a wide range of tests for use by employers and educators, including examinations for aptitude for various occupations. George Washington University psychology professor Fred August Moss (1893-1966) prepared this test for teacher aptitude with faculty member Thelma Hunt (1903-1992) and graduate student Florence Catherine Wallace [later Bose] (1895-1981).
label: Description
content: The examination is in five parts. The first considers judgment in teaching situations, the second reasoning and information concerning school problems, the third comprehension and retention, the fourth observation and recall, and the fifth recognition of mental states from facial expressions.
label: Description
content: For other tests involving Moss and the Center for Psychological Service, see 1990.0034.114 and 1989.0710.08.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p.339, 511.
label: Description
content: On Thelma Hunt, see http://www.feministvoices.com/thelma-hunt/.
label: Description
content: Gipson, T.H., Relationship of Teaching Aptitude to Age, Sex and Classification of Students at Southern University." <I>The Journal of Negro Education</I>, 1960, 29, no. 1, pp. 96-99. Accessed April 28, 2020. This describes the test in detail.
label: Description
content: Wallace, Florence Catherine M. <I>The Psychological Aspects of Speech Correction</I> , M.A. Thesis, George Washington University,1930.
label: Description
content: George Washington University, <I>Cherry Tree</I>, 1927, p. 78. Florence Catherine Wallace is listed as a student at Teachers College of GWU in this yearbook.
label: Description
content: “Deaths, Florence Wallace Bose,” <I>Washington Post</I>, July 26, 1981, p. B4. Bose is listed as the retired principal of Randle Highlands-Orr Schools in Washington, D.C. She had married Walter Bose in June of 1948.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.113
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.113
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in