The Measurement of Intelligence. Lewis M. Terman
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Lewis M. Terman
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
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664613295
Table of Contents
PART II GUIDE FOR THE USE OF THE STANFORD REVISION AND EXTENSION
THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE PART I PROBLEMS AND RESULTS
THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
CHAPTER I THE USES OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS
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.
CHAPTER II SOURCES OF ERROR IN JUDGING INTELLIGENCE
Are intelligence tests superfluous?
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. [8]
Binet’s experiment on how teachers test intelligence. [9]
CHAPTER III DESCRIPTION OF THE BINET-SIMON METHOD
Essential nature of the scale.
Special characteristics of the Binet-Simon method.
Binet’s conception of general intelligence.
Other conceptions of intelligence.
Guiding principles in choice and arrangement of tests.
Some avowed limitations of the Binet tests.
CHAPTER IV NATURE OF THE STANFORD REVISION AND EXTENSION
Method of arriving at a revision.
Effects of the revision on the mental ages secured.
CHAPTER V ANALYSIS OF 1000 INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENTS
The distribution of intelligence.
The validity of the intelligence quotient.
Intelligence of the different social classes.
The relation of the I Q to the quality of the child’s school work.
The relation between I Q and grade progress.
Correlation between I Q and the teachers’ estimates of the children’s intelligence.
The validity of the individual tests.
CHAPTER VI THE SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIOUS INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENTS