Meanings
plural Stanford-Binets
- alsoattributiveeducationA cognitive ability and intelligence test primarily designed to assess children.
Stanford-Binet scale
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I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, […] lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale.
1968, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards BethlehemHistorically, the Stanford–Binet and gifted children have been linked, largely because of the relationship of Lewis Terman to both the Stanford-Binet and his epic longitudinal study of the gifted (Terman, 1925).
1995, Judy Genshaft, Marlene Bireley, Constance L. Hollinger, editors, Serving Gifted and Talented Students, Pro-Ed, →ISBN, page 53
Origin
Named after French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911) and Stanford University, where the technique was further revised (1916).
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