Self-administered assessment 1920

National Intelligence Tests

Scale A, Form 1

The assessment

Five separately timed sections cover arithmetical reasoning, sentence completion, logical selection, same–opposite judgments, and symbol–digit substitution. The complete Scale A, Form 1 takes 17 minutes of working time.

  • Arithmetic
  • Language
  • Classification
  • Coding

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Origins

The National Intelligence Tests grew from a National Research Council project to bring the experience of wartime group testing into schools. M. E. Haggerty, Lewis M. Terman, E. L. Thorndike, Guy M. Whipple, and Robert M. Yerkes developed the scales, published in 1920.

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