Herring Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests and Verbal and Abstract Elements in Intelligence Examinations

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1924 - Binet-Simon Test - 72 pages

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Page 72 - the census demographers to recognize several grades of education instead of only two, separating those who have been through high school or college from those who have not, and so on, or simply to ascertain how many years of schooling such person has had." 476. Herring, John P. Derivation of a scale to measure abilities in scientific thinking.
Page 19 - ... any subjective imagery taken to represent, and to retain during further study, earlier outcomes of investigation.
Page 30 - Abstract and verbal tests afford better means for the prediction of human intelligence and the control of human situations generally than do concrete and non-verbal tests.
Page 31 - It seems to be the more purely abstract and the more purely verbal tests that afford the closer measures of intelligence.
Page 13 - We are bound to interpret the Pearson r. of -991, as meaning that there is little to choose between the stanford-Binet and the Herring-Binet as far as reliability and validity are concerned.
Page 32 - ... to think of any important posts of social responsibility, from railway surveying to international law, of which this does not seem true. It is the hod-carriers who typically deal with concrete situations.

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