Complete Test Material for Form L Revised Stanford-Binet Scales by Lewis M. Terman and Maud A Merrill
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content: 1937
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content: Houghton Mifflin Company
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content: This IQ test kit was designed by American psychologist Lewis M. Terman and his student/ collaborator Maud A. Merrill, to be used with Terman and Merrill's 1937 book "Measuring Intelligenc.e."
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content: The wood box with sliding cover contains implements for Revised Stanford-Binet test-form L sub tests used to measure intellegience. The kit contains a large paper doll, 6 X 6 paper a green form board with a red triangle, circle and square, a press board with small implements for Object card 1 has glued to it: a toy blue car, penny, a game piece knife, a game piece shoe, a doll house size ceramic cup, and a game piece electric iron. On the board for Object Card II wherer glued are: game piece train engine, a doll house cat, a tiny thimble, a small plastic spoon, a dollhouse ceramic cup There are several small boxes containing pieces for spare pieces and cintents for cards 3-6 including wood beads of various shapes and cubes. What is missing is th envelope of printed card material instructions for Form L and the record booklet.
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content: The revised version was designed to be used with children and intended to be a more powerful, reliable, objective, and a better standardized version of the IQ test Terman developed at Stanford University in 1916 (known as the 'Stanford-Binet' since it was in turn based on the tests invented by French psychologist Binet between 1905 and 1911).Terman argued throughout his career for a conception of intelligence as a single quantity, measurable independently of context and personality, rather than a set of different sorts of intelligence. These IQ tests were composed of many different sub-tests. The majority of these asked test-takers to attempt tasks like word-naming, comprehension, memory for digits, explaining proverbs, recognizing absurdities, and defining abstract terms. The 1937 revision specifically aimed at improving the test's accuracy at measuring intelligences at both the pre-school level (mental level of four years or below) and at the 'superior adult' level (mental level above 18 years). It was a standard clinical method for the evaluation of intellectual status and used, in clinical practice and as a tool of research with a wide variety of subjects, including thosed challenged as classified at the time as "defectives, delinquents, retarded, gifted, normal, and psychopathic.'
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content: Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics.
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content: The kit was assembled by publisher Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company was based on a merger of Henry Oscar Houghton and George Harrison Mifflin' s Riverside Press with the partnership of Ticknor and Fields. Ticknor and Fields traces its history back to 1832, when William Ticknor purchased The Old Corner Bookstore in Boston and, together with partner James Fields, established a publishing house which later became known as James R. Osgood & Company. Houghton entered the publishing business in the 1840's; his early businesses included Bolles & Houghton, Houghton & Haywood, H. O. Houghton & Company, and Hurd & Houghton. He founds Riverside Press in 1852. By 1872, Mifflin had become his partner. The 1878 merger name was Houghton, Osgood & Company but by 1880 the company had changed its name to Houghton Mifflin and Company . The company became distinguished by publishing textbooks and popular literature. In 2997 they purchased Harcourt Publishing and changed the name again to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2017.0095.059
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content: 2017.0095
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content: 2017.0095.059
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content: intellegence test kit
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content: paper (test material material)
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content: wood (container material)
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content: wood (test materials material)
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content: overall: 3 in x 15 in x 10 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 38.1 cm x 26.035 cm