overall: .1 cm x 23.6 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 9 9/32 in x 11 1/32 in
Object Name:
Psychological Test
Date made:
1954
Description:
In about 1914, the State Board of Administration of the Kansas public schools established a Bureau of Educational Measurements and Standards at the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University). The director was Walter S. Munroe. The goals of the bureau were to make tests and scales available to schools of the state, to establish state standards, to devise new tests, and to investigate problems of school administration. Reports of the work of the organization appeared in annual volumes of studies, and tests were published under the rubric of the bureau. Monroe would soon move on to the University of Illinois, and Henry E. Schrammel (1883-1964) took his place as head of the Bureau. Schrammel, born in Kansas, had graduated from Northwestern College in Illinois (1912), began educational work, and took summer school classes, receiving a masters from Teachers College of Columbia University in 1923 and completing his doctorate at Ohio State University in 1925. From 1924 he was on the faculty in psychology at Kansas State Teachers College. He would coauthor numerous tests for a wide range of school subjects in addition to English.
Edwin R. Barrett (1871-1961) and Teresa M. Ryan of the English Department at Kansas State first coauthored a version of this test in about 1929. Born in Indiana, Barrett had received his undergraduate degree from Park College, and his master’s (1905) from the University of Kansas. He taught at a normal school in Missouri and then at Kansas State. Ryan graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1911) and Columbia University. She then joined the faculty in English at Kansas State, teaching there until her retirement in 1952. Schrammel first joined Ryan and Barrett as a coauthor in the 1938 edition of the exam. It, like the materials relating to the 1954 version of the test cataloged here, was published by World Book Company, not in Kansas.
The documents relate to form DM of the test. Included are two scoring keys, one for page 1 and one for page 2, as well as a blank machine-readable answer sheet. There is no example of the test.
References
Barrett, E.R., <I>The Dramatic Use of Madness</I>, M.A. Thesis, University of Kansas, 1905 . This degree is in English.
Barrett, E.R. and T.M. Ryan, <I>The Barrett-Ryan Literature Test</I>, Emporia: Bureau of Educational Measurements and Standards, ca. 1929.
Barrett, E.R. and T.M. Ryan, <I>English Test</I>, Emporia: Bureau of Educational Measurements and Standards, ca. 1929.
