Psychological Test, Army Information Sheet - 1
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: U.S. War Department
notes: label: Description
content: From August 1942 until June 1943, those entering the United States Army were given tests like this one. It was a revision of the Minimum Literacy Test given previously (for an example of that examination see 1990.0034.008). It has twelve fill-in-the blank questions, the last five of which relate to information in a paragraph of text (in this example, Form 1 of the test, the text is about road signs). Those who passed the test could be inducted. Those who failed took a group test of mental ability called the Visual Classification Test. Those failing it took two individual tests, the Concrete Directions Test and the Block Counting Test. If a man failed these, he was rejected. An examination called the Qualification Test replaced the Army Information Sheet in June 1943, and there were no limits on the number of illiterate men inducted.
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content: Reference:
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content: Uhlaner, J. E. and D. Bolanoich, <I>Development of Armed Forces Qualification Test and Predecessor Army Screening Tests, 1948-1950</I>, Personnel Research Section Report 976, Department of the Army, 1952, esp. pp. 4-5. This is available at
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content: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/000191.pdf, accessed April 1, 2020.
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content: Currently not on view
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 Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.018
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.018
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 20.4 cm x 27 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in