The Stanford-Binet Tests in Some English Schools

Abstract

Inspectors of the central Board of Education in England can not spend much time in psychological investigations, since their ordinary official work of inspecting schools must occupy most days. In the last three years, however, we have been able to do something with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Tests, and Pro fessor Terman has suggested that a brief summary of our results would be of interest to American investigators. We shall here describe the results obtained from the examina tion of (a) 213 children in a large industrial town in Yorkshire, (b) 71 children in a remote rural district, (c) 100 children re-tested after an interval of one year, 55 of these tested a third time after an additional year, and 8 of the original 100 tested after an interval of 2 years. The version of the tests we used was that published by Messrs. Harrap and Co., London. Though this differs slightly from the American version and is said to be suitable for English children, we found it necessary to make the following changes?in VIII-4 we used Pear instead of Peach ; in IX-3, arithmetical prob lems, we used Pennies instead of Cents ; even then the prob lems are not quite similar for American and the English children, as pennies do not equal one coin, and we do not usually talk about 25 pennies, but say Two shillings and a penny. In XIV-4 we used Bough instead of Limb and in XIV-6 Change instead of Trade. The full number of tests as laid down by Professor Terman were used for the years III to XVIII. In the test for IX, the alternative was substituted for the first test, since children in school usually write the dates on their books before beginning their written work and the date is asked for in this test. In the 150