Oral history interview with George Frederic Kuder [electronic resource], 1984.

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

read from several documents which give early recollections of the formation of Science Research Associates and its growth, Lyle Spencer and Bob Burns; founder, editor of Educational and Psychological Measurement; origins and development of the preference record; impressions of John Yale; work with Social Security Board, 1940-42, Civil Service Commission, 1943; revisions of Preference Record; relationship with Esther Diamond and other editors; sales and marketing of the Record; problems with Bob Bauernfeind; handling criticism of the Preference Board.

Subjects

• Ability--Testing.
• Educational tests and measurements.
• General aptitude test battery.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Interviews
• Kuder, G. Frederic (George Frederic), 1903-2000.
• Oral histories
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Psychometrics.
• Science Research Associates.
• Spencer, Lyle Manley, 1911-1968.--Interviews.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• United States Civil Service Commission.