Object Details
- Description
- In 1908, the Frenchmen Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon published a scale for measuring the intelligence of individual children. The device much interested Lewis 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 tests. He revised the scale, and prepared a new form of it. This record form describes the questions to be asked of children and leaves space for their responses. This version of the scale was copyrighted by Houghton-Mifflin in 1916, the first year it appeared.
- 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 [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/terman-lewis.pdf]
- Carson, J., The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Terman, L.M., The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale, ed. E.P. Cubberley, Cambridge, Ma.: Riverside Press, 1916.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1916
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 19.8 cm x 27 cm; 1/32 in x 7 25/32 in x 10 5/8 in
- Object Name
- Psychological Test
