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- Title
A FURTHER EXTENSION AND REVISION OF THE BINET-SIMON SCALE.
- Authors
Kuhlmann, F.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the extension and revision of the Binet-Simon scale of mental tests. The test is the result of seven years of continuous work in the examination of over 3,000 feeble-minded of all ages and grades by the writer, and about 2,000 normal children from birth to eighteen years of age by the writer and assistants. A careful study has been made from every point of view of each individual test, the combination of tests into age-groups, and into an age-scale, and methods of scoring and classification. The net result up to date has been a greatly extended scale of tests, so as to include all grades and stages of mental development from three months to mental maturity, an increase in the total number of tests from 56 in the original 1908 scale of the authors to 129 in the present scale, a thorough standardization of all the tests and a working out of the general principles that underlie mental tests and the age-scale. The real task involved in the test should be as little related as possible to every day activities or things likely to be taught, at least for tests at the upper end of the scale. Some of the old tests retained in the scale may still be objectionable on these grounds, but were kept because they were otherwise very satisfactory.
- Subjects
MENTAL health; MEDICAL care; MENTAL health education; MENTAL health services; PSYCHOLOGY; MENTAL health facilities
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1918, Vol 8, Issue 6, p890
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1133520