Book, The Measurement of Intelligence
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Terman, Lewis M.
notes: label: Description
content: The French experimental psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911), working with colleague Theodore Simon (1873-1961), published a series of articles in 1905 that described tests they had developed to measure the intelligence of children, and particularly to diagnose and classify those of limited ability. These methods were brought to the United States, especially by Henry H. Goddard of the Training School at Vineland in New Jersey. Goddard tried them out not only on his patients at the school but on ordinary school children, publishing his results in 1910. Lewis M. Terman (1877-1956), a professor of education at Stanford University and the author of this book, sought to improve the test, expanding the number of children examined at each age level, including adults, and improving scoring procedures. By 1916, Terman was ready to publish this detailed account of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale. The volume describes the problem of measuring intelligence, the scales used to measure it, and the significance and reliability of results. It also offers detailed instructions for those testing individuals, with separate chapters for different ages.
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content: This copy of the book comes from the library of psychologist David Shakow. Pasted to the inside back cover is a typed and signed note from Lewis M. Terman to Shakow, dated January 8, 1953.
label: Description
content: More efficient, paper-and-pencil forms of intelligence test would soon be developed by Terman and other psychologists for examining and sorting groups of soldiers who entered the U.S. Army in World War I. Such group paper-and-pencil tests would become common in American schools after that war.
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content: Reference:
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content: Leila Zenderland, <I>Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.24
label: catalog number
content: 316372.24
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 19.5 cm x 14 cm; 1 9/16 in x 7 11/16 in x 5 1/2 in