Psychological Testing Movement My Slide
Racial Differences in Intelligence
• According to Goddard’s test, the majority, ranging in the 80% region, of all immigrants were feebleminded. This included
Russians, Jews, Hungarians,
Africans, and Italians. Only
Northern Europeans had IQ scores equivalent to Caucasians. Later the tests were found to be biased and they were evaluated and developed into more accurate tests. The tests were also administered in English which was not known by the majority of immigrants.
Immigration
Henry H. Goddard was hired in 1910 by the commissioner of immigration to make the examinations of immigrants more thorough, and exclude the feebleminded immigrants from the immigration process. He was the first to translate and issue Binet’s intelligence tests.
Contributions by Women
• Florence L. Goodenough received her
Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1924. She
• developed the Draw-A-Man Test (now the
Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test), a widely • used nonverbal intelligence test for children. A pioneer in test construction,
Goodenough
• worked for more than 20 years at the
Institute of Child Development at the
University of
• Minnesota. She published a detailed review of the psychological testing movement • (Goodenough, 1949) and wrote several works on child psychology.
• Maude Merrill James, director of a psychological clinic for children in California,
• wrote with Lewis Terman the 1937 revision of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, which
• became widely known as the Terman-Merrill test. Thelma Gwinn Thurstone (a 1927
• Ph.D. from the University of Chicago) married psychologist L. L. Thurstone and, like
• many women who work with their husbands, found her contributions overlooked and
• uncredited. She helped develop the Primary
Mental Abilities test battery, a group intelligence • test, and was professor of education at the
University of North Carolina and director
• of the psychometric laboratory. Her husband described her as a “genius in test
• construction” (Thurstone, 1952,
• According to Goddard’s test, the majority, ranging in the 80% region, of all immigrants were feebleminded. This included
Russians, Jews, Hungarians,
Africans, and Italians. Only
Northern Europeans had IQ scores equivalent to Caucasians. Later the tests were found to be biased and they were evaluated and developed into more accurate tests. The tests were also administered in English which was not known by the majority of immigrants.
Immigration
Henry H. Goddard was hired in 1910 by the commissioner of immigration to make the examinations of immigrants more thorough, and exclude the feebleminded immigrants from the immigration process. He was the first to translate and issue Binet’s intelligence tests.
Contributions by Women
• Florence L. Goodenough received her
Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1924. She
• developed the Draw-A-Man Test (now the
Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test), a widely • used nonverbal intelligence test for children. A pioneer in test construction,
Goodenough
• worked for more than 20 years at the
Institute of Child Development at the
University of
• Minnesota. She published a detailed review of the psychological testing movement • (Goodenough, 1949) and wrote several works on child psychology.
• Maude Merrill James, director of a psychological clinic for children in California,
• wrote with Lewis Terman the 1937 revision of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, which
• became widely known as the Terman-Merrill test. Thelma Gwinn Thurstone (a 1927
• Ph.D. from the University of Chicago) married psychologist L. L. Thurstone and, like
• many women who work with their husbands, found her contributions overlooked and
• uncredited. She helped develop the Primary
Mental Abilities test battery, a group intelligence • test, and was professor of education at the
University of North Carolina and director
• of the psychometric laboratory. Her husband described her as a “genius in test
• construction” (Thurstone, 1952,