Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

by Leila Zenderland

Book Overview

This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the famous American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. The book traces the controversies surrounding Goddard's efforts to bring Alfred Binet's tests of intelligence from France to America and to introduce them into the basic institutions of American life--from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521003636
• ISBN13: 9780521003636
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"