The Training School Bulletin Volume 11 - Books Group Staff, Paperback

• Release Date   5/21/2012
• ISBN-13   9781236357410 | 978-1-236-35741-0
• ISBN   1236357418 | 1-236-35741-8
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Books Group Staff Books Group
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...closely to the original. The Vineland Laboratory has standardized its method of giving the tests. This has been published for the benefit of those who wish to follow a standardized system. All of Binet's writings on the subject of the scale are also being translated and will soon be published in book form, where they will be available to all who desire to have them. When this translation is ready it will enable any one by careful study to become very thoroughly acquainted and familiar with the scale, and thus be able to use it with a high degree of uniformity. Caution. Some people are using the Binet-Simon scale so-called "in part," as they say, using such questions as they approve, and making their own modifications and variations in other cases. It cannot be too strongly urged that such a procedure is not using the Binet-Simon scale, and until such a modified form has been standardized by use on thousands of children, such user has no standard with which to compare his results. It is, therefore, strongly urged that those who attempt to use the scale should use it as the authors prescribe, following the directions given as closely as they are able. The omission of any question or the substitution of other questions which may seem to the examiner to be equally good or better, results in something which is not the Binet-Simon scale. Unless the substituted questions have been standardized and their equality with those omitted has been proved, it is not possible to make any comparisons with the result of other examiners who have used the genuine Binet-Simon scale. It should be borne in mind that the scale is not a mechanical device by which a child's mentality may be counted up according to the number of plus and minuses obtained, but is a means by w...