Alfred Binet facts for kids
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Alfred Binet
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Alfred Binet
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| Born | 8 July 1857 Nice, France
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| Died | 18 October 1911 Paris, France
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| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales Binet–Simon test |
| Spouse(s) | Laure Balbiani |
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| Fields | Psychology |
| Influences | John Stuart Mill |
| Influenced | Jean Piaget |
Alfred Binet (French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911) was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test. This is called the Binet–Simon test.
In 1905, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to find which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction. They could be given remedial work. With his collaborator Théodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his test in 1908 and 1911, the last of which appeared just before his death.
In 1984, the journal Science 84 picked the Binet-Simon scale as one of twenty of the century's most significant developments or discoveries.
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Reproduction of an item from the 1908 Binet-Simon intelligence scale, showing three pairs of pictures, about which the tested child was asked, "Which of these two faces is the prettier?" Reproduced from the article "A Practical Guide for Administering the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence" by J. W. Wallace Wallin in the March 1911 issue of the journal The Psychological Clinic (volume 5 number 1), public domain.
