The Measurement of Intelligence by Lewis Terman audiobook.

Genre: science

In The Measurement of Intelligence, psychologist Lewis M. Terman lays out the early twentieth-century case for making human ability measurable. Best known for refining the Binet-Simon scale into what became the Stanford-Binet, Terman explains how standardized tasks, careful scoring, and statistical comparison can be used to estimate mental development and to distinguish typical progress from significant delay or exceptional advancement. Moving from principles to practice, he discusses how tests are designed and administered, what different kinds of items are meant to capture, and how results can be interpreted for schools, clinics, and research. Along the way, Terman addresses the practical questions that still surround assessment: reliability, sources of error, the influence of age and schooling, and the dangers of overconfident conclusions. The book also reveals the ambitions and anxieties of its era, when intelligence testing was rapidly becoming a tool for sorting students and shaping educational policy. Both a technical guide and a historical window into the origins of IQ testing, this work invites listeners to consider what measurements can illuminate - and what they can easily distort - about the mind.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:07:05) Chapter 01

(00:40:38) Chapter 02

(01:05:53) Chapter 03

(01:30:51) Chapter 04

(01:55:16) Chapter 05

(02:15:23) Chapter 06

(03:01:50) Chapter 07

(03:24:16) Chapter 08

(03:59:41) Chapter 09

(04:15:26) Chapter 10

(04:33:11) Chapter 11

(04:54:50) Chapter 12

(05:17:31) Chapter 13

(05:51:29) Chapter 14

(06:34:45) Chapter 15

(07:08:35) Chapter 16

(07:52:20) Chapter 17

(08:47:43) Chapter 18

(09:13:25) Chapter 19

(09:40:24) Chapter 20

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