2. An individually administered test is used to determine a person’s
level of intelligence by measuring their ability to solve problems,
form concepts, reason, acquire detail, and perform other
intellectual tasks. It comprises mental, verbal, and performance
tasks of graded difficulty that have been standardized by use on a
representative sample of the population.
Examples of intelligence tests include the Stanford–Binet
intelligence scale and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
3.
4. Individual Test Group Test
Verbal Test
Intelligence Test
Non-Verbal Test
(Performance Test)
Verbal Test Non-Verbal Test
(Performance Test)
5. The concept of measurement of intelligence started when educators in France attempted to
identify children who were unable to learn as quickly or as well as others in school.
Alfred Binet and his colleague, Theodore Simon designed a test of intelligence that
distinguished fast learners and slow learners as well as between children of different age
groups (Binet & Simon, 1916). They gave the concept of mental age (MA).
Mental age is a measure of a person’s intellectual development relative to people of his/
her age group.
A mental age of 8 means that a child’s performance on an intelligence test equals the
average performance level of a group of 8-year-olds.
If a person's MA is higher than their CA, they are considered bright and more
intelligent.
If their MA equals their CA, they are considered to have average intelligence.
If their MA is lower than their CA, according to Binet and Simon, the person is called
"retarded".
15. VERBAL & NON VERBAL TEST
VERBAL TEST NON-VERBAL TEST
These tests cannot be performed on illiterates. These tests can be administered on deaf, dumb blind
and even on illiterates.
These tests are more reliable. These tests are not reliable.
It is less expensive It is more expensive
These tests are not meant for slow learners. These tests are for all individuals.
These tests do not have a wide coverage. These tests have a wide coverage.
These tests include language or words. These tests include images, directions and abstrac
objects
These tests cannot be performed on small children. These tests can be administered on even small
children
38. • Most reliable score – good predictor of important life outcomes.
• Derived from a sum of 7 subtest scaled scores.
• Considered the score that is most representative of global intellectual functioning (g).
• Traditionally, FSIQ has been the first score to be considered in profile interpretation.
FULL-SCALE IQ
44. TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS
CULTURE-FAIR OR CULTURE-BIASED TESTS
• Culture-fair or culturally appropriate tests are designed to avoid
discrimination against individuals from different cultures. These tests
evaluate experiences that are common across all cultures or do not
require the use of language.
• Non-verbal and performance tests are helpful in reducing the cultural
bias that is often present in verbal tests.
• In contrast, culture-biased tests are intended for a particular
population and produce results that are biased towards a specific
group, culture, or population due to cultural factors.
45. • S.M. Mohsin made a pioneering attempt in constructing an
intelligence test in Hindi in the 1930s.
• C.H. Rice attempted to standardize Binet’s test in Urdu and
Punjabi.
• At about the same time, Mahalanobis attempted to
standardize Binet’s test in Bengali.
• Attempts were also made by Indian researchers to develop
Indian norms for some western tests including RPM, WAIS,
Alexander's Pass along, Cube Construction, and Kohs’Block
Design
• Long and Mehta prepared a Mental Measurement Handbook
listing out 103 tests of intelligence in India that were available in
various languages.
• The National Library of Educational and Psychological Tests
(NLEPT) at the National Council of Educational Research and
Training (NCERT) have documented Indian tests.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS IN INDIA
46. SOME OF THE TESTS DEVELOPED IN INDIA
CIEVerbalGroupTest of Intelligence by Uday Shankar
GroupTest of General Mental Ability by S.Yalata
GroupTest of Intelligenceby Prayag Mehta
The Bihar Test of Intelligenceby S.M. Mohsin
GroupTest of Intelligenceby Bureau of Psychology,Allahabad
IndianAdaptation of Stanford- Binet Test (Third Edition) by S.K.
Kulshrestha
Test of General MentalAbility (Hindi) by M.C. Joshi.
CIE Non-verbal Group Test of
Intelligence
Bhatia’s Battery of
Performance Tests Draw-a-
ManTest by Pramila Pathak
Adaptation of WechslerAdult
Performance Intelligence
Scale by R. Ramalingaswamy
VERBAL TESTS PERFORMANCE TESTS
