Becoming Assistant Dean of Harvard University; first contact with William S. Learned of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching regarding College Entrance Board admissions exam, 1931-1932; development of National Scholarship Program at Harvard; evolution of college entrance testing, 1936-1942; Carnegie sponsorship of development of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) at Harvard and other Ivy League universities; history and establishment of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), 1937-1947; development of survey on high school education; visit to New Zealand and Australia under Carnegie Dominion and Colonies Fund to develop national college entrance exams, 1952; creation of ETS doctoral psychology fellowship program; Carnegie-sponsored education programs in South Africa and Malaya; study on mathematics education, 1953. Impressions of James Bryant Conant, William S. Learned, D.C. Josephs, Ben D. Wood.
Educators; Graduate Record Examination--History; Universities and colleges--Entrance examinations; Chauncey, Henry, 1905-2002; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Educational Testing Service History; Harvard University; College Entrance Examination Board
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Origin Information
1967
Date
1967
Physical Description
95 pages
Note (Biographical)
Assistant Dean, Harvard University; Director, College Entrance Examination Board.
Note
Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on October 2, 1967.
Note (Copyright)
Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987.
