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In 1905, French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon produced the first intelligence test (for that time). It was revised multiple times after this.
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Lewis M. Terman revised the French test in 1916 to adjust and adapt it to test children and some adults in the United States of America. He was known as the "Father" of the gifted education movement. He published the Stanford-Binet, which changed the way intelligence tests are done and forever changing the way American education was.
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The Army Alpha and Beta were created and over a million military recruits had to take the test.This created more legitimate testing for the future in academics and for the public outside of education.
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In 1921, Lewis Terman started the longest study to date of gifted children. The initial study began with 1,500 gifted students.
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Leta Stetter Hollingworth was the one to start the gifted education for children. She used the revised version of the Binet-Simon scale very much to identify very bright children and to aid in their future of their education.
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Hollingworth establishes the Speyer School for gifted children. The Speyer school is still around to date.
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The Office of the Gifted Talented in the US Department of Education becomes official in 1974.
