Collections of historical material related to educational testing from the 1920s to the 2000s.
Foto: Helge Brekke/MUV
About the project
The collection is related to the project Historicizing educational testing, an archiving project at the Department of Education, University of Oslo. It aims to arrange, catalogue and make available instruments, tests, published and archival sources that is stored in the basement of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and that can be linked to the emergence of standardized tests, intelligence tests, tests and exams in Norway from 1900 to today. The project is a collaboration between The Museum of University History, the Department of Education, the research project Transnational Trends and Contesting Concepts for Measuring Merit in the Nordic Countries, and the project Spesialsamlinger og databaser at the University of Oslo Library. The collections are registered in the cultural heritage platform Alvin.
Testsamlingen
The collections were found in and around the basement of Helga Engs hus at the University of Oslo. They are divided into 3 parts:
- Items and archives that belonged to and were used by the historical PFI - Department of Educational Research, and today’s IPED – Department of Education. These objects and paper materials were likely at the disposal of some or all staff and students the institute and likely had a central place in the “Test-courses” 1950-2000.
- Archives that were compiled by persons working at the institute that contain historical material that has been deemed worthy of conservation in the faculty’s basement.
- Archival and literary material from other organizations that were found in the basement and relate to the Institute in some manner.
