Examiner-led assessment 1916

Stanford–Binet, 1916

Original Stanford revision

The assessment

An examiner-led, age-graded assessment with verbal, memory, reasoning, and performance tasks. The guided record brings together the original task directions, scoring criteria, age credits, and required materials.

  • Language
  • Memory
  • Reasoning
  • Performance

From the archive

Origins

Lewis M. Terman’s Stanford revision extended the Binet–Simon scale and published its procedures in The Measurement of Intelligence in 1916. Its age-level organization and mental-age scoring became a major influence on individual intelligence testing.

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