Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
An additional example of an important change in the way students were examined and education was reformed as a whole is when Lewis Terman studied the Binet-Simon Scale and revised it quite a bit in 1916. The Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale was first developed in France in 1905 with the purpose of being able to recognize and support children who had special needs. Terman then took the intelligence scale and revised it, as some would say, made an Americanized version, to be able to administer to students in America 1. This is important due to how minimal intelligence testing and reports were prior to the introduction of the Binet-Simon Intelligence scale in to the United States.
The Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale went on to later be referred to as the Stanford-Binet Test/Intelligence Scale. The Stanford-Binet Test became popular within the United States fairly quickly as it was administered in more and more schools. Terman conducted study's with school-aged children throughout the following years. The purpose of these studies were, "To find the distribution of intelligence among kindergarten children, to correlate the results of Stanford-Binet tests with school marks and teachers' estimates of intelligence, to determine the effect of the repetition of a test upon the resulting intelligent quotient, and to secure data which would throw light on the proper location of the tests in the scale" 2.
1 Littman, Richard A. 2004. “Mental Tests and Fossils.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 40 (4): 423–31. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20044.
2 Cuneo, Irene and Lewis Terman. 1918. "Stanford-Binet Tests of 112 Kindergarten Children and 77 Repeated Tests." Pedagogical Seminary 25: 414. http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/stanford-binet-tests-112-kindergarten-children-77/docview/1297218473/se-2.
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