History of Testing and Assessment

By captain4807
  • 2200 BCE

    Genesis 22:5

    He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”
  • Period: 2200 BCE to

    History of Testing and Assessment

  • Verbal IQ

    French physician Jean Esquirol examined how language ability of individuals with intellectual disabilities was related to intelligence.
  • Period: to

    Here is the modern psychology

    Wilhelm Wundt developed one of the first psychological laboratories
    G.S. Hall set up his psychological lab at Johns Hopkins University

  • Performance IQ

    Edouard Seguin developed the form board to increase motor control--forerunner of "performance IQ"

  • The first modern intelligence test

    Alfred Binet created first modern intelligence test

  • The General Aptitude Test Battery

    Early vocational apitudes assessment

  • The first modern group test--Army Alpha

    The first modern group test--used during WWI

  • Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet

    First modern personality inventory--used during WWI

  • The Stanford Achievement Test

    One of the first modern educational and psychological assessment

  • Early projective tests

    Rorschach's Inkblot Test and Murray's Thematic Apperception Test

  • First Version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)