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Marion Rex Trabue
1890–1972
Best known for practical books on educational testing, this early twentieth-century writer helped bring measurement and standardized assessment into everyday school life. His work ranges from language scales to classroom evaluation guides, making him a notable voice in the history of education.
1 Audiobook
Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
by Marion Rex Trabue, Frank Parker Stockbridge
About the author
Marion Rex Trabue was an American writer and education specialist born in Indiana in 1890 and later associated with Lexington, Kentucky. Library and catalog records connect him with a long run of books and teaching materials, while memorial records place his death in 1972.
His best-known work centers on educational measurement. Titles linked to him include Completion-Test Language Scales, Measuring Results in Education, and Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It. These books reflect a period when schools were becoming increasingly interested in tests, scoring, and more systematic ways to judge student progress.
Trabue also appears in historical and genealogical publications connected with Kentucky, suggesting interests beyond the classroom as well. Today he is remembered mainly through his books, which offer a snapshot of how educators in the early 1900s thought about learning, language, and assessment.