Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
The most widely used
intelligence test for measuring the mental skills of children. Binet was the principal author of the original test, designed to identify those French schoolchildren who were in need of special education, in the early twentieth century. He compared the performance of each child with what was average or normal for his or her age. Researchers at Stanford University in the United States later adapted the test, linking it to the concept of an intelligence quotient (IQ), and standardizing test scores around an average IQ of 100. These scores express the alleged intelligence of each child relative to his or her peers in the population. Because they are standardized, it is possible to compare the performance of children in different age-bands, or the same child across time. The items in the test have been subject to periodic revision to allow for socio-economic and cultural change.
A number of other similar intelligence tests are also now in use. However, all such instruments have been subject to criticisms of cultural, class, racial, or sexual bias, and the whole area of intelligence testing remains highly controversial, in both academic and political circles.
Dictionary of sociology.
2013.
Look at other dictionaries:
Stanford-Binet IQ test — The development of the Stanford Binet IQ test initiated the modern field of intelligence testing. The Stanford Binet test started with the French psychologist Alfred Binet, whom the French government commissioned with developing a method of… … Wikipedia
Stanford-Binet — intelligence test, first published 1916 as a revision and extension of the Binet Simon intelligence tests, from Stanford University + Alfred Binet (1857 1911) … Etymology dictionary
intelligence test — Psychol. any of various tests, as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford Binet test, designed to measure the intellectual capacity of a person. Cf. achievement test. [1910 15] * * * ▪ psychology series of tasks designed to… … Universalium
Intelligence test — A questionnaire or series of exercises designed to measure intelligence. It is generally understood that intelligence tests are less a measure of innate ability to learn as of what the person tested has already learned. There are many types of… … Medical dictionary
intelligence test — a standardized assessment procedure for the determination of intellectual ability. The score produced is usually expressed as an intelligence quotient. Most tests present a series of different kinds of problems to be solved. The best known are… … The new mediacal dictionary
Stanford-Binet test — noun revision of the Binet Simon Scale • Hypernyms: ↑intelligence test, ↑IQ test * * * Stanford Binet test [Stanford Binet test] noun a US test used to measure intelligence, especially in children. It was developed at ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Stanford-Binet test — Stan·ford Bi·net test .stan fərd bi nā n an intelligence test prepared at Stanford University as a revision of the Binet Simon scale and commonly employed with children called also Stanford Binet A. Binet see BINET AGE * * * Stan·ford Bi·net test … Medical dictionary
Stanford Binet test — Synonyms and related words: Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein Sheerer test, IQ, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Oseretsky test, Rorschach test, Stanford revision,… … Moby Thesaurus
intelligence test — Synonyms and related words: Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein Sheerer test, IQ, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Oseretsky test, Rorschach test, Stanford revision,… … Moby Thesaurus
binet-simon test — adj. (also Binet test) Psychol. a test used to measure intelligence, esp. of children. Etymology: A. Binet d. 1911 and T. Simon d. 1961, Fr. psychologists * * * sēˈmōⁿ noun Usage: usually capitalized B&S Etymology: after Alfred Binet died 1911… … Useful english dictionary
