| Description | CD sound recording, transferred from reel-to-reel tape, of Dr. Arthur Otis (1886-1964), Ability test pioneer , developer of the Otis Group Intelligence Scale in conversation with Dr. Walter Durosi in March 1959.
Copright 1959 Harcourt Brace and World, New York, USA.
Running time: 29mins
Reel-to- Reel specs: 5 inch spool, 1/4 inch magnetic tape, rate 3.75 ips. Converted to digital Wav |
| AdminHistory | Biography of Otis taken from the Harcourt website http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Otis-Lennon_School_Ability_Test
Arthur Sinton Otis, PhD (28 July 1886-1 January 1964); is best known for the multiple choice intelligence tests he developed for the US Army. As a doctoral student under Lewis Terman in 1917 he developed the group-administered tests titled the Army Alpha (for literates) and the Army Beta (for illiterates). Dr. Otis developed it to improve cost and time efficiency as compared to one developed by Alfred Binet (1857–1911), which was individually administered. Given in multiple-choice format and administered in groups, 1.7 million World War I recruits took the Army Alpha test. The results were published in 1921 and included the relative performance of recruits of different national origins.
Many historians credit Fredrick James Kelly, PhD (1880–1959), of the University of Kansas, for inventing the multiple choice format (aka Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ) in 1914. However, Dr. Otis was the first to use it on a large scale in the Army Alpha test.
Dr. Otis was also a major contributor as a test editor for the World Book Company, which later became part of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. World Book |
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