Produced by Ron Swanson [Transcriber's note: Text set within braces is printed upside down in the original text in order to facilitate its use with a test subject sitting at a table across from the examiner.] CONDENSED GUIDE FOR THE STANFORD REVISION OF THE BINET-SIMON INTELLIGENCE TESTS BY LEWIS M. TERMAN PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO _The Riverside Press Cambridge_ COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY LEWIS M. TERMAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _The Riverside Press_ CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. PREFACE Since the appearance of the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale I have been frequently urged to prepare a condensed guide which would make the application of the tests easier and more convenient. I have hesitated somewhat to act upon this suggestion because I have not wished to encourage the use of the scale without the supplementary directions and explanations which are set forth in the original text of the Stanford Revision.[1] The demand has become so insistent, however, that I have decided to heed it. I have been led to this decision largely by the fact that my revision is now so generally used by examiners who are sufficiently experienced to be trusted to follow the correct procedure without the necessity of constantly consulting the complete text. Those who are thoroughly familiar with the contents of the latter will find the _Condensed Guide_ a convenient help. It is impossible, however, to warn the inexperienced examiner too emphatically against the dangers inherent in the routine application of mental tests without some knowledge of their derivation, meaning, and purpose. The necessary psychological background for the use of the Binet scale I have tried to supply in _The Measurement of Intelligence_, and in _The Intelligence of School Children_ I have explained the practical uses of mental tests in the grading and classification of school children. It is only as a supplement to these books that the procedure of the Stanford Revision is here presented in abbreviated form. [Footnote 1: Lewis M. Terman: _The Measurement of Intelligence_. (Riverside Textbooks in Education.) Houghton Mifflin Company.]