Robert Yerkes

that we want to exterminate the negro population and the ministers the black ministers that she recruited they are the people who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members her defenders say she was heading off a rumor fine read her sentence again anyway a white eugenicist planning to use our pulpit to quiet our suspicion and calling the ones who suspected her motives the more rebellious ones.

Robert Yerkes, APA president.

built the army mental tests for the First World War.

The committee labeled 89% of black recruits morons.

It's been around since, like, the early 1900s.

Um, it was pioneered by these two men, Robert Yerkes, John Dillinger Dodson.

And this model basically proposes that you reach your peak level of performance with an intermediate level of stress or arousal.

Too little or too much stress is what results in poor performance and perhaps poor health.

Sidney Pressy was an Ohio State University education psychologist and psychologist.

Like many of the men, overwhelmingly men, working at the time in psychology, which was itself a fairly new field, right? He'd worked for, or his mentor in college at Harvard was Robert Yerkes, who of course helped develop the Army Alpha intelligence test that was administered to US soldiers in World War I.

It was really the first massive standardized testing project.

And so I think it's important to sort of think about how standardized testing is really constitutive of this idea of personalizing and automating education.