The measurement of intelligence / Lewis M. Terman.

  • Lewis Terman
Date:
1916?]
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Credit: The measurement of intelligence / Lewis M. Terman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PART I. PROBLEMS AND RESULTS CHAPTER I Tue Uses or INTELLIGENCE TESTS ems Intelligence tests of retarded school children. _ Intelligence tests of the feeble-minded. Intelligence tests of delinquents. Intelligence tests of superior children. Intelligence tests as a basis for grading. Intelligence tests for vocational fitness. Other uses of intelligence tests. 38 CHAPTER II Sources oF Error IN JUDGING INTELLIGENCE Biba: grceaane RL Are intelligence tests superfluous? The necessity of standards. The intelligence of retarded children usually overestimated. The intelligence of superior children usually underestimated. Other fallacies in the estimation of intelligence. Binet’s questionnaire on teachers’ methods of judging intelligence. Binet’s experiment on how teachers test intelligence. CHAPTER III DESCRIPTION OF THE BrneEtT-Stuon MetHoD . . ..... 36 Essential nature of the scale. How the scale was derived. List of tests. How the scale is used. Special characteristics of the Binet-Simon method. The use of age standards. The kind of mental functions brought into play. Binet would test “general in- telligence.” Binet’s conception of general intelligence. Other conceptions of intelligence. Guiding principles in choice and ar- rangement of tests. Some avowed limitations of the Binet tests. CHAPTER IV NATURE OF THE STANFORD REVISION AND ExTENsION . . 51 Sources of data. Method of arriving at a revision. List of tests in the Stanford revision and extension. Summary of changes. Effects of the revision on the mental ages secured,
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