Which booklet would a pupil have sat?
Haggerty's two examinations split the school years between them, and the committee test he co-wrote overlapped both. Pick a grade.
Melvin E. Haggerty, 1875–1937
An educational surveyor before he was a test author. Select a year.
1919–1921: about fifteen group tests for the youngest pupils
In June 1921 O. J. Johnson, a Minnesota doctoral student, surveyed the group tests for primary pupils. He dated the first extensive use to 1919, when Haggerty gave Delta 1 in the Virginia Public School Survey, and counted about fifteen examinations by the time he wrote [3]. The years and names below are as he lists them.
References
- [1]Psychological Test With Sheet, Haggerty Intelligence Examination Delta 2 (test, manual of directions © 1929, and score-interpretation sheet). National Museum of American History, 1990.0034.129.americanhistory.si.edu
- [2]Psychological Test with Sheet, Haggerty Intelligence Examination Delta 1. National Museum of American History, 1990.0034.128.americanhistory.si.edu
- [3]Johnson, O. J. (1921). Non-Verbal Group Intelligence Tests for Primary Pupils. PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota. University Digital Conservancy.conservancy.umn.edu
- [4]Two Psychological Tests with Manual and Key, National Intelligence Tests, Scale A Form 1 and Scale B Form 1. National Museum of American History.americanhistory.si.edu
- [5]Psychological Test, Haggerty Reading Examination Sigma 1. National Museum of American History.americanhistory.si.edu
- [6]Test collection, Box 47: Haggerty-Olson-Wickman Behavior Rating Schedules, 1930. Cornell University Library archives.archives.library.cornell.edu
Related historical tests
Haggerty is the first name on the NIT's alphabetical author list. It covered grades 3 to 8, almost the same span as his own Delta 2.
World Book published Otis's group scale before it took on Haggerty's. Otis's Primary Examination also appears in Johnson's 1920 list.
The Presseys' Primer Scale is in Johnson's 1919 list beside Delta 1. Both came out of Indiana school surveying.
Dearborn's Series 1 is one of the 1920 primary tests Johnson lists. It was a Harvard rival in the same market.
Haggerty's Indiana survey used Thorndike's reading test. Thorndike, his fellow NIT committee member, later built the CAVD.
A Detroit first-grade test already appears in Johnson's 1921 list. The Detroit tests carried primary-grade testing on into the mid-1920s.