Intelligence

Binet's Questionnaire On Teachers' Methods Of Judging Intelligence
How The Scale Was Derived
Giving Differences Between A President And A King
Finding Rhymes
Effects Of The Revision On The Mental Ages Secured
Giving The Number Of Fingers
Using A Code
Keeping The Child Encouraged
Interpretation Of Fables (score 4)
Induction Test: Finding A Rule
Other Fallacies In The Estimation Of Intelligence
Alternative Test 3: Construction Puzzle A (healy And Fernald)
Guiding Principles In Choice And Arrangement Of Tests
Alternative Test 2: Counting The Value Of Stamps
List Of Tests
Repeating Six To Seven Syllables
Tying A Bow-knot
Genius And Near Genius
I Ntelligence Of The Different Social Classes
Alternative Test 1: Repeating Six Digits

Average Adult Alternative Test 1: Repeating Twenty-eight Syllables

The sentences for this test are:--

(a) _Walter likes very much to go on visits to his grandmother,
because she always tells him many funny stories._
(b) _Yesterday I saw a pretty little dog in the street. It had
curly brown hair, short legs, and a long tail._

PROCEDURE. Exactly as in VI, 6. Emphasize that the sentence must be
repeated without a single change of any sort. Get attention before
giving each sentence.

SCORING. Passed _if one sentence is repeated without a single error_. In
VI and X we scored the response as satisfactory if one sentence was
repeated without error, or if two were repeated with not more than one
error each.

REMARKS. The test of repeating sentences is not as satisfactory in the
higher intelligence levels as in the lower. It is too mechanical to tax
very heavily the higher thought processes. It does, however, have a
certain correlation with intelligence. Contrary to what one would have
expected, uneducated adults of "average adult" intelligence surpassed
our high-school students of the same mental level.

Binet located this test in year XII of the 1908 series, but shifted it
to year XV in 1911. The American versions of the Binet scale have
usually retained it in year XII, though Goddard admits that the
sentences are somewhat too difficult for that year. Kuhlmann puts the
test in year XII, but reduces the sentences to twenty-four syllables and
permits one re-reading. We give only two trials and our sentences are
considerably more difficult. With the procedure and scoring we have
used, the test is rather easy for the "average adult" group, but a
little too hard for year XIV.





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