Alfred Binet
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Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 - October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test.
Binet, who published the first intelligence test in 1905, was aiming to identify students who could benefit from extra help in school: his assumption was that lower IQ indicated the need for more teaching, not an inability to learn. Albert lived from 1857 to 1911; he created the test 7 years before he died. In 1914, his formula was adjusted by William Stern. A further refinement was published in 1916 by Lewis Terman, from Stanford University. This would become known as the Stanford-Binet Scale. The modern version is one test of intelligence commonly used today, colloquially known as an IQ test.
External links:
- http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/binet.html
- http://www.src.uchicago.edu/users/sjack/classes/psc226/gould/node3.html
- http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Binet/binet1.htm
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References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Alfred_Binet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Binet, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
