1910's Medicine and Health | Terman, Lewis Madison 1877-1956

PIONEER OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS

Educational Psychology.

Lewis Madison Terman was an educational psychologist known for his long-term study of highly intelligent individuals. Born in Johnson County, Indiana, on 15 January 1877, Terman received his Ph.D. at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905. (Clark University, under the leadership of psychologist G. Stanley Hall, was at that time a hotbed of American psychology.) Terman's thesis was based on his investigation of the differences between groups of bright and dull children on a wide range of tests. After graduating from Clark, Terman, who had tuberculosis, went west on the advice of his physician. He settled in California and joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1910, where he stayed until his retirement in 1942.

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.

In 1916 he revised the Binet-Simon intelligence test, which then became known as the...