1. Bluemel, C. S. “Binet Tests on Two Hundred Juvenile Delinquents”; in Training School Bulletin (1915), pp. 187–93.
  2. Goddard, H. H. The Criminal Imbecile. The Macmillan Company. (1915.) 157 pages.
  3. An analysis of the mentality of three murderers of moron or borderline intelligence.
  4. Goddard, H. H. “The Responsibility of Children in the Juvenile Court”; in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (September, 1912).
  5. Analysis of 100 tests of juvenile delinquents.
  6. Healy, William. The Individual Delinquent. Little, Brown & Co. (1915.) 830 pages.
  7. A textbook on delinquents. Gives results of many Binet-Simon tests.
  8. Spaulding, Edith R. “The Results of Mental and Physical Examination of Four Hundred Women Offenders”; in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1915), pp. 704–17.
  9. Sullivan, W. C. “La mesure du développement intellectuel chez les jeunes délinquantes”; in Année psychologique (1912), vol. 18, pp. 341–61.
  10. Williams, J. Harold. A Study of 150 Delinquent Boys. Bulletin no. 1, Research Laboratory of the Buckel Foundation. (1915.) 15 pages.
  11. The Stanford revision used. Report of over 400 cases to follow.

BINET-SIMON TESTS OF SUPERIOR CHILDREN

  1. Jeronutti, A. “Ricerche psicologiche sperimentali sugli alunni molto intelligenti”; in Lab. di Psicol. Sperim. della Reg. Univ. Roma. (1912)
  2. Out of fifteen hundred school and kindergarten children, ages five to twelve, fourteen were selected by the teachers as the brightest. The Binet test showed them to be from one to three years in advance of their chronological ages.
  3. Terman, L. M. “The Mental Hygiene of Exceptional Children”; in Pedagogical Seminary (1915), vol. 22, pp. 529–37.
  4. Data on 31 children testing above 120 I. Q.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GIVING THE BINET-SIMON TESTS

  1. Binet, A., and Simon, Th. A Method of Measuring the Development of Intelligence in Young Children. Chicago Medical Book Company. (1915.) 82 pages.
  2. Authorized translation of Binet’s final instructions for giving the tests.
  3. Goddard, H. H. “A Measuring Scale of Intelligence”; in Training School Bulletin (1910), vol. 6, pp. 146–55.
  4. Condensed translation of Binet’s 1908 Measuring Scale of Intelligence.
  5. Goddard, H. H. “The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence, Revised”; in Training School Bulletin (1911), vol. 8, pp. 56–62.
  6. Goddard, H. H. “Standard Method for Giving the Binet Test”; in Training School Bulletin (1913), vol. 10, pp. 23–30.
  7. Kuhlmann, F. “A Revision of the Binet-Simon System for Measuring the Intelligence of Children”; Monograph Supplement of Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (September, 1912), 41 pages.
  8. Wallin, J. E. W. “A Practical Guide for the Administration of the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence”; in The Psychological Clinic (1911), vol. 5, pp. 217–38.

CRITICISMS AND EVALUATIONS OF THE BINET-SIMON METHOD

  1. Berry, C. S. “A Comparison of the Binet Tests of 1908 and 1911”; in Journal of Educational Psychology (1912), vol. 3, pp. 444–51.
  2. Bobertag, O. “Ueber Intelligenzprüfungen (nach der Methode von Binet und Simon)”; in Zeitschrift für angewande Psychologie. (A, 1911), vol. 5, pp. 105–203; (B, 1912), vol. 6, pp. 495–537.
  3. Accepts the method and gives valuable suggestions for improvement.
  4. Brigham, Carl C. “An Experimental Critique of the Binet-Simon Scale”; in Journal of Educational Psychology (1914), pp. 439–48.
  5. Finds the scale 96% efficient.
  6. Goddard, H. H. “The Reliability of the Binet-Simon Measuring Scale of Intelligence”; in Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of School Hygiene (1913), vol. 5, pp. 693–99.
  7. Application of the theory of probability to the results proves the extremely small liability of error.
  8. Kohs, Samuel C. “The Practicability of the Binet Scale and the Question of the Borderline Case”; in Training School Bulletin (1916), pp. 211–23.
  9. Analysis of cases showing the reliability of the scale.
  10. Kuhlmann, F. “Binet and Simon’s System for Measuring the Intelligence of Children”; in Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (1911), vol. 15, pp. 79–92.
  11. Finds the method of the greatest value.
  12. Kuhlmann, F. “A Reply to Dr. L. P. Ayres’s Criticism of the Binet and Simon System for Measuring the Intelligence of Children”; in Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (1911), vol. 16, pp. 58–67.
  13. Many of the Ayres criticisms are shown to be unfounded.
  14. Meumann, E. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Experimentelle Pädagogik (1913), vol. 2, pp. 130–300.
  15. Summary of the literature on Binet tests up to 1913. Accepts the method but gives suggestions for improvement. This summary and other writings of Meumann on the psychology of endowment are reviewed by Lewis M. Terman in a series of four articles in the Journal of Psycho-Asthenics for 1915.
  16. Otis, A. S. “Some Logical and Mathematical Aspects of the Measurement of Intelligence by the Binet-Simon Method”; in The Psychological Review (April and June, 1916).
  17. Considers the Binet-Simon method imperfect from the mathematical point of view.
  18. Schmitt, Clara. Standardization of Tests for Defective Children. Psychological Monographs (1915), no. 83, 181 pages.
  19. Contains (pp. 52–67) a discussion of the “Fallacies and Inadequacies of the Binet-Simon Series.” Most of the criticisms here given are either superficial or unfair, some of them apparently being due to a lack of acquaintance with Binet’s writings.
  20. Stern, W. The Psychological Methods of Measuring Intelligence. Translated by G. M. Whipple. (1913.) 160 pages.
  21. A splendid critical discussion of the Binet-Simon method. Should be read by every one who would use the scale.
  22. Terman, L. M. “Suggestions for Revising, Extending, and Supplementing the Binet Intelligence Tests”; in Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (1913), vol. 18, pp. 20–33.
  23. Terman, L. M. “Psychological Principles Underlying the Binet-Simon Scale and Some Practical Considerations for its Correct Use”; in Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (1913), vol. 18, pp. 93–104.
  24. Terman, L. M. “A Report of the Buffalo Conference on the Binet-Simon Tests of Intelligence”; in Pedagogical Seminary (1913), vol. 20, pp. 549–54.
  25. Abstracts of papers presented at the above conference.
  26. Terman, Lyman, Ordahl, Galbreath, and Talbert. The Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence. (1916.)
  27. Contains a chapter on the validity of the individual tests and on considerations relating to the formation of an intelligence scale.
  28. Terman and Knollin. “The Detection of Borderline Deficiency by the Binet-Simon Method”; in Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (June, 1916).
  29. A comparison of the accuracy of the Stanford and other revisions with borderline cases.
  30. Trèves and Saffiotti. “L’échelle métrique de l’intelligence modifiée selon la méthode Trèves-Saffiotti”; in Année Psychologique (1912), pp. 327–40.
  31. Criticize the age-grade method of measuring intelligence and propose a substitute.
  32. Wallin, J. E. W. Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives. A Critique of the Binet-Simon Tests. Warwick & York. (1912.)
  33. Criticism based on the use of the scale with epileptics.
  34. Yerkes and Bridges. A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability. Warwick & York.
  35. Authors think the point scale preferable to the Binet-Simon method.

BOOKS ON MENTAL DEFICIENCY

  1. Binet, A., and Simon, Th. Mentally Defective Children. Translated from the French by W. B. Drummond. Longmans, Green & Co. (1914.) 171 pages.
  2. Discusses the psychology, pedagogy, and medical examination of defectives.
  3. Goddard, H. H. Feeble-Mindedness; Its Causes and Consequences. The Macmillan Company. (1913.) 599 pages.
  4. The most important single volume on the subject. Extensive data on the causes of feeble-mindedness and excellent clinical pictures of all grades of mental defects.
  5. Goddard, H. H. The Kallikak Family. The Macmillan Company. (1914.) 121 pages.
  6. An epoch-making study of the hereditary transmission of mental deficiency in a degenerate family.
  7. Holmes, Arthur. The Conservation of the Child. J. B. Lippincott Company. (1912.) 345 pages.
  8. Methods of examination and treatment of defective children.
  9. Holmes, Arthur. The Backward Child. Bobbs-Merrill Company. (1915.)
  10. A popular treatment of the handling of backward children.
  11. Huey, E. B. Backward and Feeble-Minded Children. Warwick & York. (1912.) 221 pages.
  12. Devoted mainly to clinical accounts of borderline cases.
  13. Lapage, C. P. Feeble-Mindedness in Children of School Age. The University Press, Manchester, England. (1911.) 359 pages.
  14. Sherlock, E. B. The Feeble-Minded; A Guide to Study and Practice. The Macmillan Company. (1911.) 327 pages.
  15. Tredgold, A. F. Mental Deficiency (Amentia). Baillière, Tindall, and Cox. London, England. (2d ed. 1914.) 491 pages.
  16. The best medical treatment of the subject.

STUDIES OF THE PROGRESS OF CHILDREN THROUGH THE GRADES