2016-09-29 Guide to the Herbert Anderson Toops Papers, 1917-1969 RG.40.29 Finding aid prepared by Karen Glenn Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2018-10-17T14:26-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Herbert Anderson Toops Papers RG.40.29 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 12.17 Cubic feet 1917-1969 The Herbert Anderson Toops Papers contain files concerning Toops' research in psychology, the Ohio College Association, test research artifacts, and a typescript of his manuscript Towards Progress in Higher Education. Herbert Toops was a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. (8) cartons, (7) oversize wooden boxes English Toops, Herbert Anderson, 1895- Arrangement of Materials

Materials are arranged in the order received.

 Acquisitions Information

Accession Number UA.1971.0044; Accession Number UA.1991.0012: Ohio College Association; Accession Number UA.2004.0128: Rare Books & Manuscripts

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Herbert Anderson Toops Papers, RG 40.29, Ohio State University Archives, Ohio State University

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 Biographical Note

Herbert Anderson Toops (1895-1972) was a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. His research focus was on aptitude tests.

 Scope and Contents

The Herbert Anderson Toops Papers contain files concerning Toops' work with the Ohio College Association in developing intelligence tests, bulletins, subject files, correspondence, examples of psychological tests, and a typescript of his manuscript Towards Progress in Higher Education, 1968. The collection also contains test research artifacts such as mechanical objects used for the Stenquist Assembly Test and wooden testing blocks of various geometric shapes and sizes.

 Related Materials Herbert Anderson Toops Ohio College Association Records Ohio College Association. Ohio State University--Faculty. Ohio State University--History. Toops, Herbert Anderson, 1895- College teachers--Ohio--Columbus--20th century Cultural artifacts Psychology--Research--Ohio--Columbus--20th century Processed 12.17 Cubic feet 1917-1969 (8) cartons, (7) oversize wooden boxes Acquisitions Information

Accession Number UA.1971.0044; Accession Number UA.1991.0012: Ohio College Association; Accession Number UA.2004.0128: Rare Books & Manuscripts

 Correspondence UA.RG.40.29.0001 1-8 1920-1969 Correspondence: American Statistical Association Meetings UA.RG.40.29.0001 9-10 1924-1937 Correspondence: Courtis, Stuart A. UA.RG.40.29.0001 11 1932-1933, 1943, 1952-1955, 1967-1968 Correspondence: Dodd, Stuart UA.RG.40.29.0001 12 1947-1953 Correspondence: Gaier, Eugene L. UA.RG.40.29.0001 13 1953 Correspondence: Journal of Educational Research UA.RG.40.29.0001 14 1931-1933 Correspondence: Layton, Wilbur UA.RG.40.29.0001 15-18 1950-1968 Correspondence: McAdoo, Harold L. UA.RG.40.29.0001 19 1952-1953 Correspondence: McDowell, P.E., Captain U.S.N. UA.RG.40.29.0001 20 1950-1951 Correspondence: Ohio Department of Education Teacher Training Advisory Group UA.RG.40.29.0001 21 1927-1931 Correspondence: O.S.U. Intelligence Test UA.RG.40.29.0001 22 1920-1924 Correspondence: Perloff, Robert UA.RG.40.29.0002 1 1962-1965 Correspondence: University of Wisconsin Faculty Position Offer to Toops UA.RG.40.29.0002 2 1926 Correspondence: Wood, Eleanor P. UA.RG.40.29.0002 3 1929-1931 Correspondence with Graduate Students: "A" thru "J" UA.RG.40.29.0002 4 undated Correspondence with Graduate Students: "K" thru "P" UA.RG.40.29.0002 5 undated Correspondence with Graduate Students: "Q" thru "Z" UA.RG.40.29.0002 6 undated Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. ‘A' thru ‘Z' (Bulletins ‘C', ‘S', ‘W', ‘X' are missing) UA.RG.40.29.0002 7 1926-1930 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 27-42 UA.RG.40.29.0002 8 1926-1930 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 43-49 UA.RG.40.29.0002 9 1926-1930 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 50-59 UA.RG.40.29.0002 10 1926-1930 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 60, 62-70 UA.RG.40.29.0002 11 1926-1930 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 71-76, 78-80 UA.RG.40.29.0002 12 1926-1931 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 81-83, 85-90 UA.RG.40.29.0002 13 1928-1933 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 91-100 UA.RG.40.29.0002 14 1930-1936 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 101-113 UA.RG.40.29.0002 15 1936-1959 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 114-122, 123.1-129 UA.RG.40.29.0002 16 1939-1964 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 130-137, 139 UA.RG.40.29.0002 17 1941-1952 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 140-148 UA.RG.40.29.0002 18 1950-1953 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 150-161 UA.RG.40.29.0002 19 1953-1961 Ohio College Association: Bulletins Nos. 165-177 UA.RG.40.29.0002 20 1961-1966 Ohio College Association: Committee on Intelligence Tests for College Entrance UA.RG.40.29.0002 21 1924-1928 Ohio College Association: Committee on Intelligence Tests for College Entrance UA.RG.40.29.0003 1-2 1929-1934 Ohio College Association: Committee for Technical Research Funding UA.RG.40.29.0003 3 1962-1969 Ohio College Association: Committee on Technical Research: Correspondence UA.RG.40.29.0003 4 1941, 1965 Ohio College Association: Correspondence: O.S.U. College Entrance Intelligence Test UA.RG.40.29.0003 5 1925-1927 Ohio College Association: Correspondence: O.S.U. College Entrance Intelligence Tests: Use Forms UA.RG.40.29.0003 6 1925-1927 Ohio College Association: Meetings: Proceedings, Minutes, and Program UA.RG.40.29.0003 7 1955-1957, 1966-1968 Testing: "A Catechism on a State-Wide Testing and Guidance Program" UA.RG.40.29.0003 8 1936-1937 Testing: Algebra and Geometry UA.RG.40.29.0003 9 1920s Testing: "An Omnibus Test of Personality" Draft UA.RG.40.29.0003 10 1960s Testing: Arithmetic UA.RG.40.29.0003 11 1920-1922 Testing: Bookkeeping: High School Survey Tests UA.RG.40.29.0003 12 1928 Testing: Citizenship UA.RG.40.29.0003 13 1922 Testing: Civics: Brown-Woody Tests UA.RG.40.29.0003 14 1926 Testing: Clerical Work UA.RG.40.29.0003 15 1919-1922 Testing: Comparison of Forms 3 4: 1922-23: Revision of Forms 1 2: Tests 3 4 UA.RG.40.29.0003 16 undated Testing: Correlations Between Tests and Other Variables UA.RG.40.29.0003 17 1920-1923 Testing: Dot-Distribution for Agriculture, Arts, Education Engineering Students UA.RG.40.29.0003 18 undated Testing: Final Exam at Proseminar on Large Scale Research UA.RG.40.29.0003 19 1959 Testing: Generalization of Objective Scoring Keys UA.RG.40.29.0003 20 1950s Testing: General Science Testing: 1920s: Biology Testing UA.RG.40.29.0003 21 undated Testing: High School Physics UA.RG.40.29.0003 22 1923-1927 Testing: I.E.R. Tests of Selective Rational Thinking and of Generalization Organization UA.RG.40.29.0003 23 undated Testing: I.E.R. General Clerical Test: 1933: Test Materials UA.RG.40.29.0003 24 1923 Testing: Investigating the Emotions UA.RG.40.29.0003 25 1920s Testing: Item Analysis of Form No. 18 UA.RG.40.29.0003 26 undated Testing: Item Analysis of Form No. 23 UA.RG.40.29.0003 27 undated Testing: Item Analysis of Form No. 24 UA.RG.40.29.0003 28 undated Testing: Item Analysis of Form No. 25 UA.RG.40.29.0003 29 undated Testing: Kuhlmann-Anderson Tests for Grades 1-12 and Intelligence: 1927-31: Iowa Elementary Language Tests UA.RG.40.29.0004 1 1930 Testing: Language: English French: 1920: Geography Scales UA.RG.40.29.0004 2 1922 Testing: Non-Language Tests UA.RG.40.29.0004 3 1920-1923 Testing: O.S.U. Intelligence Test Budget Payroll UA.RG.40.29.0004 4 1919-1926, undated Testing: O.S.U. Intelligence/Psychological Test Correspondence Results UA.RG.40.29.0004 5 1919-1924, 1941 Testing: O.S.U. Psychological Test: Validity Difficulty of Items and Alternatives of Forms 18-21 UA.RG.40.29.0004 6 undated Testing: Ohio University Study UA.RG.40.29.0004 7 1930-1934 Testing: Personality Questionnaire UA.RG.40.29.0004 8 undated Testing: Psychological Tests: Directions for Examiners: Forms A B 5-16 UA.RG.40.29.0004 9 1924-1960 Testing: Psychological Tests: Forms 17-20; 22-26 UA.RG.40.29.0004 10 1924-1960 Testing: Spelling UA.RG.40.29.0004 11 undated Testing: Stenograph Tests UA.RG.40.29.0004 12 1923 Testing: Students' Grade Report UA.RG.40.29.0004 13 undated Testing: Study of Engineering Freshman UA.RG.40.29.0004 14 1919-1920 Testing: Study of Radio Operators' School at Fort Knox, Kentucky UA.RG.40.29.0004 15 1941 Testing: Superior Intelligence Traits UA.RG.40.29.0004 16 undated Testing: Trade Tests Constructed by Students in Psychology UA.RG.40.29.0004 17 1923 Testing: Tradesman Tests (Various) UA.RG.40.29.0004 18 1918 Testing: Van Wagenen American History English Composition Scales UA.RG.40.29.0004 19 1923 Testing: Variety of Subjects UA.RG.40.29.0004 20-21 1917-1931 Writings: "Analysis of the Human Variables in Guidance" UA.RG.40.29.0004 22 1946 Writings: "A Profile of a Personal Utopia" UA.RG.40.29.0004 23 undated Writings: "A Research Utopia in Industrial Psychology" UA.RG.40.29.0004 24 1958 Writings: Articles from Professional Journals UA.RG.40.29.0004 25 1927-1960 Writings: Bibliography UA.RG.40.29.0004 26 undated Writings: "Check List for Inspection Renovation of Houses": 1959: "Items for Inspection with a View to Reconstruction of Old Houses—A Check-List of Possible Improvements" UA.RG.40.29.0004 27 1965 Writings: "Computational Statistics:" Preface, Chapters 1 2: Preliminary Manuscript of Textbook (Page nos. not sequential between chapters thru entire manuscript) UA.RG.40.29.0004 28 1943 May Writings: "Computational Statistics:" Chapters 3-6: Preliminary Manuscript of Textbook UA.RG.40.29.0004 29 1943 May Writings: "Computational Statistics:" Chapters 7-11: Preliminary Manuscript of Textbook UA.RG.40.29.0005 1 1943 May Writings: "Computational Statistics:" Chapters 12-15: Preliminary Manuscript of Textbook UA.RG.40.29.0005 2 1943 May Writings: "Computational Statistics:" Chapter 13 Draft UA.RG.40.29.0005 3 undated Writings: Courtis, S.A.: "Maturation Units and How to Use Them" UA.RG.40.29.0005 4 1950 Writings: Courtis, S.A.: "Toward a Science of Education" UA.RG.40.29.0005 5 1951 Writings: Courtis, S.A.: "The Measurement of Growth" UA.RG.40.29.0005 6 1932 Writings: Courtis, S.A.: The Determination of Law in the Biological Sciences UA.RG.40.29.0005 7 1939 Writings: "Critique of the War Department Civilian Personnel Research and Statistical System" UA.RG.40.29.0005 8 1944 Writings: "Curve-Fitting (Or Equations-Finding)" UA.RG.40.29.0005 9 undated Writings: "Definitions on Coding and Questionnaires" UA.RG.40.29.0005 10 undated Writings: "Doing the Whole Job" UA.RG.40.29.0005 11 1964 Writings: Dwellings: A Variety of Articles on Needs, Design, Renovation UA.RG.40.29.0005 12 1960s Writings: "Efficiency in Printing Original Data" UA.RG.40.29.0005 13 undated Writings: "Equation for Mental Transmutation of Data" UA.RG.40.29.0005 14 undated Writings: "Exhausting the Sources in Test Making" UA.RG.40.29.0005 15 undated Writings: Gardening Lawn Care: Variety of Articles UA.RG.40.29.0005 16 1960s Writings: "Generalization of Objective Scoring Keys" "Principles of Employing Human Abilities" UA.RG.40.29.0005 17 undated Writings: "If I Were Twenty-One" UA.RG.40.29.0005 18 undated Writings: "Improving the Validity of Tests by Item Selection:" Adkins Toops UA.RG.40.29.0005 19 undated Writings: "Limitations of Educational Opportunity" UA.RG.40.29.0005 20 undated Writings: "Non-Statistical Methods of Criterion Combination" UA.RG.40.29.0005 21 1949 Writings: "Notes on the Problem of Uniqueness" UA.RG.40.29.0005 22 undated Writings: "Personal Aims and Practical Philosophy of Life" UA.RG.40.29.0005 23 undated Writings: "Personal Statistical Control" UA.RG.40.29.0005 24 1951 Writings: "Practical Viewpoint in Employment Tests" UA.RG.40.29.0005 25 undated Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes and Hollerith Machines:" Correspondence UA.RG.40.29.0005 26 1925-1949 Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Preface and Chapters 1-4 UA.RG.40.29.0005 27 1930s Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Chapters 5-7 UA.RG.40.29.0005 28 1930s Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Chapters 8 9 UA.RG.40.29.0005 29 1930s Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Chapters 10 11 UA.RG.40.29.0005 30 1930s Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Chapters 12 13 and Bibliography UA.RG.40.29.0006 1 1930s Writings: "Questionnaires, Standard Codes Hollerith Machines:" Manuscript: Appendix 1-9 UA.RG.40.29.0006 2 1930s Writings: Reports Papers Read at Higher Education Meetings UA.RG.40.29.0006 3 1967-1968 Writings: Short Subjects UA.RG.40.29.0006 4 undated Writings: "Some Fundamental Facts of Guidance" UA.RG.40.29.0006 5 undated Writings: "Some Possibilities of Statistical Analysis Rendered Possible by Recent Applications of Punched Card and Sorting Equipment" UA.RG.40.29.0006 6 undated Writings: "Standard Method of Computing Single Correlations" UA.RG.40.29.0006 7 undated Writings: "Statistical Methods" UA.RG.40.29.0006 8 undated Writings: "Testing Tradesmen:" Manuscript: Table of Contents, Introduction, Chapters 1-10 UA.RG.40.29.0006 9 1920 Writings: "Testing Tradesmen:" Manuscript: Chapters 11-16 UA.RG.40.29.0006 10 1920 Writings: "Testing Tradesmen:" Manuscript: Chapters 17-21 UA.RG.40.29.0006 11 1920 Writings: "Testing Tradesmen:" Manuscript: Chapters 22-25, Bibliography, Appendix A-E UA.RG.40.29.0006 12 1920 Writings: "The Problem of Alternative Treatment" UA.RG.40.29.0006 13 undated Writings: "The Significance of Research in Education for Public School Teachers" UA.RG.40.29.0006 14 undated Writings: "The Transmutation of Marks" UA.RG.40.29.0006 15 1933-1934 Writings: "Thinking Out Loud About the Item Analysis of the O.S.U. Intelligence Test" UA.RG.40.29.0006 16 undated Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Vol. 1: "Orientation and Results:" Chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 19, 20, 40, 43, 47 UA.RG.40.29.0006 17 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Table of Contents, Preface, Chapters 1-3 UA.RG.40.29.0006 18 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapter 4 UA.RG.40.29.0006 19 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapters 5-10, 12 UA.RG.40.29.0006 20 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapters 13-15, 17, 18 UA.RG.40.29.0006 21 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapters 20-28 UA.RG.40.29.0006 22 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapters 29, 30, 36, 37, 40, 46, 47 UA.RG.40.29.0006 23 1968 Writings: "Toward Progress in Education:" Chapters 49, 53-55, 59, 60, 67, 70-72 UA.RG.40.29.0006 24 1968 Writings: "Ways of Eliminating Dishwashing" and "Ways of Preparing, Cooking Serving Food" UA.RG.40.29.0006 25 1965 Writings: "Working the Question:" Drafts of a Chapter UA.RG.40.29.0006 26 1940 Writings: "Utopia:" Chapter 40: Pages 4001-4131 UA.RG.40.29.0006 27 undated Inventions: Description of Testing: Teaching Device UA.RG.40.29.0007 1 undated Inventions: Correspondence, incl. Patent Application UA.RG.40.29.0007 2 1930-1947 Inventions: Research Materials UA.RG.40.29.0007 3 undated Curriculum: "Personnel Work Study" UA.RG.40.29.0007 4 1941-1942 Curriculum: Scholarship Records UA.RG.40.29.0007 5 1931 Research Materials UA.RG.40.29.0007 6-10 1919-1968 Research Materials (1 of 3) UA.RG.40.29.0007 11 undated Research Materials (2 of 3) UA.RG.40.29.0007 12 undated Research Materials (3 of 3) UA.RG.40.29.0007 13 undated Research Materials: Department of Psychology: Professor Personal Quality Weighings UA.RG.40.29.0007 14 undated Research Materials: "The Mendenhall-Warren-Hollerith Correlation Method" UA.RG.40.29.0007 15 1929 Research Materials: "The Tabulating Machine Method for Modern Mathematical Statistics" UA.RG.40.29.0007 16 1930 Research Materials: Visual Communication UA.RG.40.29.0007 17 1941-1950 Research Artifacts UA.RG.40.29.0008 undated Box of common mechanical objects used for the Stenquist Assembly Test, Minnesota Revision UA.RG.40.29.0009 UA.RG.40.29.0010 UA.RG.40.29.0011 undated 4 boxes of 10 wooden testing blocks of various geometric shapes and sizes with markings UA.RG.40.29.0013 UA.RG.40.29.0012 UA.RG.40.29.0015 UA.RG.40.29.0014 undated