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Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman
1877–1956
Best known for adapting the Binet intelligence test into the Stanford-Binet, this influential psychologist helped shape early educational testing in the United States. His long-running study of gifted children also left a lasting mark on how intelligence was studied and debated.
3 Audiobooks
The measurement of intelligence : an explanation of and a complete guide for the use of the Standard revision and extension of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale
by Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman
Condensed guide for the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon intelligence tests
by Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 : Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8
by Truman Lee Kelley, G. M. (Giles Murrel) Ruch, Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman
About the author
Born in Indiana in 1877, he became an American psychologist and a major figure in educational psychology. He taught at Stanford and is most closely associated with the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, an American revision of earlier work by Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon.
He also launched a famous long-term study of gifted children, following participants over many years to examine how high ability developed across a lifetime. That work made him widely known in psychology and education, and his influence continued long after his death in 1956.
His legacy is important but also contested. Alongside his contributions to intelligence testing, modern accounts note his support for eugenic ideas, which has led later readers to reassess both his work and its impact.