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

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      EAN 4057664613295

Table of Contents

       PART I. PROBLEMS AND RESULTS

       PART II GUIDE FOR THE USE OF THE STANFORD REVISION AND EXTENSION

       FIGURES AND DIAGRAMS

       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 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. [8]

       Binet’s experiment on how teachers test intelligence. [9]

       CHAPTER III DESCRIPTION OF THE BINET-SIMON METHOD

       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.

       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

       Sources of data.

       Method of arriving at a revision.

       Summary of changes.

       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.

       Sex differences.

       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

       Frequency of different degrees