Psychological Test, Stanford Scientific Aptitude Test for High School and College Students
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: maker
content: Zyve, D. L.
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content: Stanford University Press
notes: label: Description
content: Psychology professors and students at Stanford University – particularly students of Lewis M. Terman – were much interested in applications of paper and pencil tests. In 1926, David L. Zyve (1885-1945) completed a PhD. dissertation at Stanford on measuring scientific aptitude. It has eleven lettered parts and was reissued as late as 1930 – this version has 1929 and 1930 copyrights.
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content: Polish-born Zyve had received his A.B. from the Classical Gymnasium in Warsaw, and further degrees from the University of Paris and the University of Grenoble. He came to the United States from France in 1916, attended Teachers College for a time, received his Stanford PhD. and apparently returned to New York where he worked as a teacher.
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content: References:
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content: Barbara Stoddard Burks, Dortha Williams Jensen, Lewis Madison Terman, <I>The Promise of Youth: Follow-up Studies of a Thousand Gifted Children</I>, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1930, vol. 3, pp. 144-146.
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content: Miller, Rebecca B. “Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century,” Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2017, pp. 175-182.
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content: David L. Zyve, “An Experimental Study of Scientific Aptitude,” PhD. Dissertation, Stanford University, 1926.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Stanford
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Gold
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.09
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content: 1989.0710
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content: 1989.0710.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in