Development of measurement and evaluation

The Development of Intelligence Test

Jean Etienne Esquirol

a French Psychiatrist

draw the differences between mental deficiency and insanity

used language capability a criterion

classify individuals with mental retardation

Leader of Abnormal Psychology

Wilhelm Wundth
a German Philosopher & Psychologist

established the first laboratory in the world

1879 experimental psychology at Leipzig

Father of Experimental Psychology

Founder of Modern Psychology

Herman Ebbinghaus

a German Experimental Psychologist

devised a world-completion test used in intelligence tests

Investigated color vision and mental capacity

first to demonstrate that learning and memory could be studied

experimentally

Founder of Quantitative Study Memory

Francis Galton

a British Psychologist

proponent of statistical analysis as applied to mental and behavioral

phenomena

first to use questionnaire and survey methods in investigating mental

imagery

to improve mental and the educational tests

Karl Pearson

a British mathematician

Developed techniques of modern statistics

wanted to find statistical relationships to explain how biological

characteristics were passed down through generation

Pearson Product-Moment Coefficient of Correlation

Charles/Carl Spearman

an English Psychologist

made an estimate of the intelligence of a group of children two factor

theory of intelligence

Spearman Rank-Difference Coefficient of Correlation

Karl Pearson

a British mathematician

Developed techniques of modern statistics

wanted to find statistical relationships to explain how biological

characteristics were passed down through generation

Pearson Product-Moment Coefficient of Correlation

Charles/Carl Spearman

an English Psychologist

made an estimate of the intelligence of a group of children two factor

theory of intelligence

Spearman Rank-Difference Coefficient of Correlation

Edward L. Thorndike

an American Psychologist

developed psychological connectionism

developed a test of intelligence that consisted of completion,

arithmetic, vocabulary, and directions test CAVD

became the foundation of modern intelligence test

James McKeen Cattell

an American Psychologist

stress the importance of quantification, ranking, and ratings

Father of Mental Testing.

Alfred Binet

an French psychologist

developing conception on intelligence importance of attention span

and suggestibility in intellectual development
Binet-Simon Scale (Theodore Simon)
use mental age as a measure of intelligence

Henry Herbert Goddard

an American Psychologist

established the first laboratory for the psychological study of mentally

retarted persons (1910)

Father of Intelligence Testing in U.S.