A Century of Ability Testing 0-8292-5156-1

Table of contents :
- Preface
1: Beginnings of Mental Testing
- A Universal Endeavor
-- "Mental Test"
-- Converging Trends of Thought
- The Work of Alfred Binet
-- Early Work of Alfred Binet
-- Binet's Work in Context
-- Publication of the Binet-Simon Scales
-- Binet's Concept of Intelligence
-- Assumptions Behind Intelligence Measurement
2. Early Efforts in the United States and England
- Research in the United States
-- E. L. Thorndike and Educational Measurement
-- Lewis Terman's Early Work
- Research in England
- The Transatlantic Connection
-- The Binet-Simon Scale in America
- Technical Considerations
-- The Age Scale vs. the Point Scale
--Normative Expressions---IQ and CI
- Advent of the Stanford Revision
3. The Army Testing Program and Its Legacy
- Psychology in the War Effort
-- Advent of the Committee
-- Structure and Function of the Wartime Testing Effort
-- Impact of Testing on the Army
- Concerns and Confusion Caused by Testing
-- Concerns in the Educational Community
-- The Attack on Mental Age
-- Mental Testing and Immigration Policy
- Testing Developments in the 1920s
-- The CAVD---A Test Ahead of Its Time
4. New Intelligence Studies and Tests
- Evolving Theories of Intelligence
-- The Spearman-Thorndike Debate
-- Factor Analysis and the Multiple Factor Theory
- New and Revised Tests
-- The Stanford-Binet Revision
-- Development of the Wechsler-Bellevue
5. Testing in the Second Half-Century
- The Rate of Progress Slows
-- The _Mental Measurements Yearbooks_
-- Military Testing in World War II
-- Focus on Aptitude Testing Batteries
- Intelligence Tests Undergo Revision
-- Revisions of the Stanford-Binet
-- Revisions of the Wechsler Scales 85
- New Theories of Intelligence
- Testing on Trial
6. Recent Research on the Nature of Intelligence
- Cognitive Science and Intelligence
-- The Rise of Cognitive Science
-- The Challenge of Process
-- Cognitive Science and the Computer
-- Contributions of Cognitive Research
- The Theory of Fluid and Crystallized Abilities
-- Tests of Fluid and Crystallized Abilities
-- Horn's Revision of _Gf_-_Gc_ Theory
- Process Theories of Ability Constructs
-- Verbal-Crystallized Ability
-- Spatial-Visualization Ability
-- Fluid Reasoning Ability
-- Mental Speed
- Attempts to Move Beyond Existing Tests
-- Triarchic Theory
-- Evaluation of the Triarchic Theory
-- The New Stanford-Binet
-- Speculations on the Future
- Summary and Evaluation
- References
- Chronology
- Name Index
- Subject Index

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A Century of Ability Testing Robert M. Thorndike Western Washington University

with David E, Lohman The University of Iowa

The Riverside Publishing Company Chicago

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