Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Manual for the Third Revision Form L-M

by Lewis M. Terman, Maud A. Merrill

The present revision of the Stanford-Binet Tests aims at providing test users with a single scale that, while preserving the characteristic features of previous revisions, eliminates out-of-date content and improves general structure. Items making up the new L-M Form have been chosen from those of the 1937 scales. The retained items were selected because they have continued to meet the requirements of validity and reliability and have been shown to be suitable in form and content as a result of testings of between four and five thousand subjects. The assessment of these tests provides reasonable assurance to test users that the third Revision of the Stantford-Binet Scales can be relied upon to perform even more dependably the functions that have come to be expected of them..

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About the author

Lewis Madison Terman was an American psychologist and author. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. He was a prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation. He also served as president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Terman as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with G. Stanley Hall.

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[Michael David · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's impressive to see how Terman and Merrill expounded and expanded upon the work started by Alfred Binet when it comes to the development and differences of human intelligence. This may largely be obsolete by now, but one can see the love they had for psychometric assessment.