Stanford-Binet
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English
Etymology
Named after French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911) and Stanford University, where the technique was further revised (1916).
Noun
Stanford-Binet (plural Stanford-Binets)
- (education, also attributive) A cognitive ability and intelligence test primarily designed to assess children.
- Stanford-Binet scale
- 1968, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, […] lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale.
- 1995, Judy Genshaft, Marlene Bireley, Constance L. Hollinger, editors, Serving Gifted and Talented Students, Pro-Ed, →ISBN, page 53:
- Historically, the Stanford–Binet and gifted children have been linked, largely because of the relationship of Lewis Terman to both the Stanford-Binet and his epic longitudinal study of the gifted (Terman, 1925).
Further reading
Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
