brief history

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to select the meritorious individuals for government positions (civil service).

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Chinese empire

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they used testing as an adjunct to the educational process. Tests are used to assess mastery of physical and intellectual skills.

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Ancient Greeks

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French physician who devoted more than 100 pages to what is now termed “mental retardation”

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Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol

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was appointed to a commission charged with devising a method for evaluating children who, due to mental retardation and other developmental delays

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Alfred Binet

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published the first useful instrument in the measurement of general cognitive abilities, or global intelligence.

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Theodore Simon

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American version is called the Stanford-Binet Scale is authored by

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Lewis Terman

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proposed that a mental level could be calculated to represent the quality of performance. Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100.

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William Stern

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organized a committee of psychologists to assemble an intelligence test for selecting new recruits. The result is the Army Alpha

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Robert Yerkes

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the group IQ test movement. Soon the were released for use by the general public, resulting in the growth of the testing movement.

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Army tests

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use of a free association test with psychiatric patients.

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Kraepelin

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The prototype of the personality questionnaire, or self-report inventory, Personal Data Sheet

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Woodworth

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cheating, cooperativeness, stealing etc. in schoolchildren.

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Hartshorne

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interest also grew in measuring personality by exploring the unconscious. With this interest came the development of two important projective tests

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the Rorschach Inkblot Test and the TAT.