Alexander Performance Scale test materials and scoring forms

PART OF:: Collection of psychological tests used in clinical psychiatry between 1930 and 1950

Made:: 1946-1950 in Edinburgh

maker:: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited

Alexander Performance Scale test materials and scoring forms, developed by W.P. Alexander, 1935, manufactured by Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1946-1950

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Category:: Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

Object Number:: 1980-1429/1

Materials:: wood, paper and cardboard

type:: tests

credit:: Hardman, W.L.

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Alexander Performance Scale Test material comprising: Passalong

Alexander Performance Scale Test kit, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946-1950

Alexander Performance Scale Test material comprising: Passalong Test, Kohs' Block Design Test and Cube Construction Test with test cards and instructions in wooden case, made by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., Edinburgh, 1946-1950

Developed in 1935 by William Picken Alexander (1905-93), the Alexander Performance Scale Test was designed to discover which type of secondary school a child should go to. The Education Act 1944 made education free up to the age of 15 and created three types of school: grammar schools with an academic focus, technical schools which focused on learning a trade and secondary moderns for children not placed at either of the other two types.

The kit had three tests: the Passalong Test, Kohs’ Block Design Test, and the Cube Construction Test where children made patterns of coloured blocks according to the illustrations while being timed. The 11 plus exam was also used to determine which type of school a child should go to.