Sheet, Test of Science Knowledge

Description:

This is an undated sheet from The Psychological Corporation announcing the publication of a test which might be used, the company says, to assess scientific background and predict scientific achievement. It grew out of the Earth Science Curriculum Project. The ESCP was an NSF-funded project to improve high school teaching of geology and space science that originated in the mid-1950s. It was centered at the American Geological Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and encouraged publication of textbooks such as Investigating the Earth (Houghton-Mifflin, 1967), in conjunction with expert scientific advice, teacher training and evaluation. To judge the success of its endeavors, the ESCP and the Psychological Corporation developed a test. This sheet advertises a modified version of that test. No individual author is listed. For a description of the test as given by the ESCP in 1967, see Wall and Summerlin.

Reference:

Irwin, Larry A. "A Brief Historical Account and Introduction to the Earth Science Curriculum Project."The High School Journal, 1970, 53, #4, pp.241-49. [above is www.jstor.org/stable/40366466. ]

Wall, J. and L. Summerlin, Standardized Science Tests: A Descriptive Listing, Washington, D.C.: National Science Teachers Association, 1973, p. 40.

Date Made: ca 1967

Author: Psychological Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: MathematicsPsychological Tests

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Science & Mathematics

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Credit Line: Gift of Samuel Kavruck

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1990.0034.161Catalog Number: 1990.0034.161Accession Number: 1990.0034

Object Name: sheet

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: 21.7 cm x 28 cm; 8 17/32 in x 11 1/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-2bb9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_692450

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