Intelligence tests and achievement tests, of the various forms of psychological and educational testing, require the most frequent revision.
Standard
intelligence tests can take a long time to complete, making it hard to gather results on huge numbers of people.
The judge granted the motion to prohibit the administration of individual
intelligence tests to all such children (Prasse & Reschly, 1986).
In addition, the experienced and inexperienced examiners should administer a single
intelligence test to participants in a counterbalanced manner.
It is hard to come away from this debate with any very firm conclusions but it seems clear that in fact there is some differentiation in human intelligence as it appears on
intelligence tests. Thurston theory offers the best analyses, producing what we will call a verbal factor a spatial factor and a reasoning factor.(Anderson,1990,P:438).Educators and psychologists have used
intelligence test extensively and with sufficient success for us to feel justified in noting their application with children.
Out of the 140 children who were among the top 10% for at least one
intelligence test, only a minority of 38 children, or about 27%, were identified as gifted by both tests.
With regard to the doctored photographs, Zenderland argues that the marks made around the eyes and mouth in those particular pictures were commonplace in photographs of the period and she maintains that Goddard would have had no reason to doctor these, as his argument was that a multitude of people were feeble-minded although they looked perfectly normal which is where the value of the
intelligence tests in detecting such people lay.
After completing his Ph.D., he studied psychoanalysis at the University of Zurich and then landed a job in Paris standardizing
intelligence tests for psychologist Alfred Binet.
Alfred Binet, the originator of the modern
intelligence test, seemed to know this intuitively.
The doggie
intelligence test is a 12-part examination which scores the dog on things like how it reacts when you grab your coat or pick up your keys and its lead.
When MTBI is suspected, "(a)ll too often, global indices such as
intelligence test scores are used to presumably (yet inadequately) gauge the severity of [an individual's] deficits..." (Cullum et al., 1990, p.
Thus, students who have been diagnosed as having a Specific Learning Disability (SLD) or Mental Retardation (MR) will periodically undergo a psychological assessment that will include some form of
intelligence test. In the initial evaluation, the
intelligence test most likely to have been administered was the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R, Wechsler, 1974; Reschly & Wilson, 1990).