Sentence Completion Test

Abstract

The term sentence completion test refers to a broad category of tests rather than to any one specific test. Use of sentence completion tests in psychology dates back to the very beginning of the discipline. Herman Ebbinghaus, who is primarily remembered for his pioneering work on human learning and memory, first used a sentence completion test as early as 1897 to assess the reasoning ability and intellectual capacity of school children in Germany. Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon later included a sentence completion test in their intelligence scale developed to assess intellectual deficits in children in France.