Interest in intelligence dates back more than a century. However, it wasn't until psychologist Alfred Binet was asked to identify which students needed educational assistance that the first ...

Psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon created the IQ test. In 1904, Binet administered the test for the first time in France. The purpose was to identify children who were most likely to ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

Intelligence tests appeared in the early 20th century. The first attempts to measure mental abilities were made by the French psychologist Alfred Binet, who developed a test to identify children with ...

Intelligence testing began in the early 1900s. French scientist Alfred Binet created the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in 1905. Binet sought to identify special education pupils, not rate them.

After his education in Switzerland, he worked in France for Théodore Simon, Alfred Binet's collaborator, where he helped standardize tests for gauging the reasoning abilities of five- to eight ...

Alfred Binet set out with the best of intentions to determine how to place children in the best type of school for their intellectual skills. But intelligence, or IQ, testing, has been used to ...