Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development. Leta Stetter Hollingworth

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       Leta Stetter Hollingworth

      Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664649645

Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       PREFACE

       PART I. ORIENTATION

       CHAPTER ONE. THE CONCEPT OF INTELLECTUAL GENIUS

       CHAPTER TWO. EARLY SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF EMINENT ADULTS [1]

       CHAPTER THREE. PUBLISHED REPORTS ON TESTED CHILDREN

       PART II. TWELVE CASES NEW TO LITERATURE CONCERNING TESTED CHILDREN

       CHAPTER FOUR. CHILD A

       CHAPTER FIVE. CHILD B

       CHAPTER SIX. CHILD C

       CHAPTER SEVEN. CHILD D

       CHAPTER EIGHT. CHILD E

       CHAPTER NINE. CHILD F

       CHAPTER TEN. CHILD G

       CHAPTER ELEVEN. CHILD H

       CHAPTER TWELVE. CHILD I

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN. CHILD J

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CHILD K

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN. CHILD L

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN. SUMMARIES OF HEREDITY AND EARLY BEHAVIOR

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

       PART III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ADULT STATUS AND PERSONALITY RATINGS

       CHAPTER NINETEEN. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY IN HIGHLY INTELLIGENT CHILDREN [1]

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLING OF VERY BRIGHT CHILDREN

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. PROBLEMS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. IN THE CASE OF HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PUPILS

FOREWORD

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      Shortly after the year 1924 Leta S. Hollingworth prepared a manuscript on "Children above 180 IQ (Stanford-Binet)" in which she surveyed the material on the topic available up to that date and added accounts of five cases which she had studied individually. [1] As the years went by she held back the manuscript from publication and one by one she found seven more cases to be included in her list. At the time of her death in 1939 she had begun to revise this manuscript, bringing the survey up to date and adding the new cases. The present book gives as much of this revision from her own hand as is available. The Preface and Chapters 1, 2, and 3 are as she wrote them. The accounts of the first five cases are given just as she originally wrote them up, but to them "editorial supplements" have been added in which an endeavor has been made to present for each case such data as have been found in her files, with little in the way of discussion or interpretation.

      The seven new cases which the original author had intended to include in the manuscript she had not yet written up. For these, therefore, it has been necessary to study the data she had accumulated for each child, to secure additional data when and where possible, and to present such an account of each as she might herself have written, patterned after her reports of the earlier cases.

      Much is lost that would have been contributed had the author lived to complete her project. She knew these cases intimately and at first hand. Some of them she had followed for as long as twenty years, taking a personal interest in the individual children and their problems, advising them, assisting them, continuously observing them, and frequently testing and measuring them.

      Particularly inadequate must be the accounts of the later development of the individuals herein described, for many of the details well known to the author she not committed to paper, since she fully expected to complete the manuscript herself. It is to be regretted that a follow-up study of these recent developments could not have been undertaken, and a hope is expressed that this may yet be done.

      The chapters summarizing the group of twelve new cases are wholly without Leta S. Hollingworth's touch. It seemed desirable, however, to give such a summary as could be made under the circumstances. Had the original author been able to complete her book, we know that penetrating light would have been thrown on many of the more personal difficulties of these children of rare intelligence. This experience and insight can no longer be recovered. It must suffice to put on record chiefly the factual data now available, leaving it for future workers to follow up, if it should seem desirable, the subsequent career and destiny of the individuals whose early development and background are herein reported. Identification of these children is not made in this book, but the necessary facts for this purpose are on file and identification can be made at any time in the interests of educational research.

      The third section of this book as originally outlined by Leta S. Hollingworth was to have dealt with general principles and with the social and educational implications of the study of children of very high intelligence. Up to the time of her death nothing of this character had been written by her explicitly, but throughout the years in which her projected book was developing she wrote a number of papers and reports bearing on the