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Binet-Simon Scale
IQ TestingAlfred Binet and colleague Theodor Simon developed questions that were not being taught in schools, like attention and memory, and used them to determine academic success. This became known as the Binet-Simon Scale, the first intelligence test. The Standord-Binet Intelligence Scale was adapted from the first
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Literacy Amendment
AmendmentA literacy amendment was proposed to add to the immigration bill that said immigrants over 16, excluding wives, children, parents, and grandparents of citizens, were required to pass a reading test. -
Reading Programs
Between 1900 and 1920, librarians designed reading programs because troops were unable to read. -
Thorndike and Animal Testing
Thorndike proposed the law of effect and the law of exercise in his doctoral dissertation as Animal Intelligence. Law of effect:established patterns that orccur again to the same stimulus.
Law of exercise: behaviour is frequent connections of stimulus and response. A connection can be made from adaptive changes in animal behavior and human learning. -
Standardized Reading Tests
William S. Gray developed a standardized reading test called "Standardized Oral Reading Paragraphs" for grades 1-8. -
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
The Binet-Simon Scale was brought to the U.S and Lewis Terman, a pyschologist from Stanford University, used the test on American participants. This adapted test became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and became the standard test used in the U.S. -
Silent Reading
From 1916 to 1920, silent reading was conveyed in the influential yeabooks of National Society for the Study of Education. Students were able to retain the main ideas better in silent reading. -
Army Alpha and Beta Tests
Army TestBefore WWI, Army officials had to screen recruits. President of APA, Robert Yerkes, developed Army Alpha and Beta tests.
Army Alpha was a written test.
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Oral Reading
Thorndike had concen about comprension because silent reading was supported over oral reading. -
College Degrees
The first Bachelor's degree was granted and teachers' courses were extended to four years plans. -
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
SATIn the early 1900's Alfred Binet used a standardized test to identify Parisian children who had learning impairments or disabilities. The SAT was adapted from an intelligence similar to one that Binet developed and was used to test the United States Army during WWI to place recruits in positions to fit their abilities. -
Basal: Dick and Jane Books
William S. Gray became coauther with William H. Elson on a popular basal titled Elson BasicReaders. This later became Elson-Gray Basic Readers, which later became the Dick and Jane books. -
Law of Effect
Thorndike found that the Law of Effect is not always valid. Rewards for appropriate behavior strengthened associations, where punishment for inappropriate responses only slightly weakened between the stimulus and wrong response.
