Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually as "the capacity for abstracting" or "the ability to meet new situations." One thing on which most agree, however, is that its quality or quantity does not change. Thirty years ago Professor Alfred Binet and a Sorbonne colleague, relying on this principle, devised the first widely used intelligence test. It consisted of a series of 54 questions, groups of which were to be given to children of various ages. The highest group a child could pass decided his mental age, which, when divided by his physical age, determined his Intelligence Quotient (I. Q.). In, theory he might...
Purpose of the I. Q. is to sort out children of exceptional intelligence who are likely to need exceptional educational treatment. Last year some 250,000 U. S. schoolchildren, inmates of juvenile delinquent institutions and miscellaneous persons, had their I. Q.s scored by a revision of the Binet-Simon test, called the Stanford-Binet and published by Dr. Lewis Madison Terman in 1916. Last week Stanford University's spry, 60-year-old Psychologist Terman and his associate, Dr. Maude Amanda Merrill, were guiding through the presses of Houghton Mifflin Co. the first revision ever made in this prime educational...
...course of the whole 129 in either set would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
...League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion was defeated. Next the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin put Rearmament to the test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those...
...Jack Hobbs, British professional, who had scored 197 centuries (100 runs or more in a single innings) when he retired in 1931. Braddles already holds the world's record for individual batting in first-class cricket (452 runs, not out) and the record for runs in a Test Match series (974). In the first matches of the current series, Braddies made three centuries (270, 212, 169), a grand total of 810 runs, an average of 90 runs an innings...