Standing Committee on Test Standards
- Date:
- 1959-1985
- Reference:
- PSY/BPS/1/4/8
- Part of:
- British Psychological Society Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Minutes of the Standing Committee on Test Standards and files relating to course submissions by various organisations and academic institutions.
Publication/Creation
1959-1985
Physical description
4 volumes, 16 files
Acquisition note
Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in February 2009.
Biographical note
Minute 3105 for the Council meeting held on 22nd November, 1958 reads: "That a standing committee on tests standards be appointed".
Of the eight members appointed to the founding committee, six were present at the first meeting on 10th February 1959; they elected Professor P. E. Vernon chairman and Mr D. A. Pidgeon secretary. The activities of the committee since that first meeting fall into two main phases: up to September 1968 and from October 1968 onwards. The significance of the dividing date is that the committee was then given responsibility for vetting proposed short courses for non-psychologists in the use of psychological tests. The initial terms of reference, adequate throughout the first phase, numbered five. When phase two began, new terms of reference were drawn up. The committee is now a standing committee of the Professional Affairs Board, wherever PAB is mentioned the original wording would have been "council". The committee met 22 times during the first ten years.
Notes
Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.