The measurement of intelligence

by Lewis M. Terman

CHAPTER II

[Sources of Error in Judging Intelligence] [22]

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

CHAPTER III

[Description of the Binet-Simon Method] [36]

• [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.]
  • [The use of age standards.]
  • [The kind of mental functions brought into play.]
  • [Binet would test “general intelligence.”]
• [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] [51]

• [Sources of data.]
• [Method of arriving at a revision.]
• [List of tests in the Stanford revision and extension.]
• [Summary of changes.]
• [Effects of the revision on the mental ages secured.]

CHAPTER V