The Intelligence of School Children How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading, and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children (Classic Reprint)

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Three years ago the author of the present volume published, in this series. The Measurement of Intelligence. This represented a number of years of careful scientific work, on the part of himself and his students, in testing out and adapting to American needs and conditions the very important foundation work of the French scholar Binet. It was predicted at the time that the volume would prove of fundamental importance in pointing the way to more intelligent school room procedure, and that in time the mental measurement of all children not making satisfactory educational progress would become a matter of routine in the administration of a school.

The reception given to the volume, not only in this country but in Canada and England as well, has exceeded expectations. With the entry of the United States into the World War, and the application of intelligence testing to our army recruits as a means of grading capacity and sorting them for the serious business of war, an entirely new impetus has been given to intelligence measurements As a result of the work done in the army, as much progress has been made during the past three years in the use of intelligence tests as ordinarily might have been expected in a decade.

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