Psychological Test, The Terman Record Form for the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests
Psychological Test, The Terman Record Form for the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests
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- Description
- In 1908, the Frenchmen Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon published a scale for measuring the intelligence of individual children. The device much interested Louis Terman, a professor at the Los Angeles State Normal School who would soon move to Stanford University, and he began studies of children whose intellect ranked high according to the Binet-Simon scale. He revised the scale, and prepared a new form of the test. This record form describes the questions to be asked of children and leaving space for their responses. It first appeared in 1916 – this example was copyrighted by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1916, 1922 and 1934.
- Compare 1990.0034.025, 1990.0034.026, and 1990.0034.027.
- References:
- Boring, E.G., “Lewis Madison Terman 1877-1956,” Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1959.
- Carson, J., The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Psychological Test
- date made
- ca 1934
- maker
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.1 cm x 20.8 cm x 28.3 cm; 1/32 in x 8 3/16 in x 11 5/32 in
- ID Number
- 1990.0034.025
- catalog number
- 1990.0034.025
- accession number
- 1990.0034
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- subject
- Mathematics
- Psychological Tests
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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