Object Details
- Description
- Walter F. Dearborn (1878-1955) received his undergraduate (1900) and master’s (1903) degrees from Wesleyan University and his doctorate from Columbia University (1906) as well as a medical degree from Munich (1913). Dearborn taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Harvard University in 1912. He would spend his academic career there.
- Dearborn’s early research was on problems in reading. In the wake of the US. Army World War I psychological testing program, he published in 1920 a series of intelligence tests for children. These were arranged in two series, series I (for children in grades one through three) and series II (for children in grades four through twelve). This is the 1921 revised form of Dearborn’s series I, sold by J.B. Lippincott Co. of New York. It is entitled “Games and Picture Puzzles,” as the early Dearborn intelligence tests were.
- On paper-and-pencil tests associated with Dearborn, see MA.316371.007.01, MA.316371.007.02, MA.316371.007.03, MA.316371.007.04, 1990.0034.149, and 1990.0034.158.
- References:
- Langfeld, H. S. "Walter Fenno Dearborn: 1878-1955," American Journal of Psychology, 1955, 68, # 4, pp. 679-81.
- “News and Communications,” Journal of Educational Research, 1920, 2, p. 675. Announces publication of Dearborn Group Tests of Intelligence.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- author
- Dearborn, Walter F.
- publisher
- J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- date made
- 1921
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 27/32 in x 11 1/32 in
- Object Name
- Psychological Test
