Object Details
- Description
- During World War II, staff of the Personnel Research Section of the U.S. War Department’s Adjutant General’s Office prepared and published numerous tests for the classification and evaluation of military personnel at many levels and for many different occupations. This pamphlet, published in 1947, is a preliminary version of a manual on methods of test construction. Individual authors are not given.
- Reference:
- Sisson, E. Donald. "The Personnel Research Program of the Adjutant General's Office of the United States Army," Review of Educational Research, 1948, 18, # 6, pp.575-614. Accessed April 23, 2020 at www.jstor.org/stable/1168187. This gives a general description of activities of the Personnel Research Section during the war.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- U.S. War Department
- date made
- 1947
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 20.2 cm x 26.6 cm; 1/32 in x 7 15/16 in x 10 15/32 in
- Object Name
- Pamphlet
