The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fifth Edition (SB5) is a standardized test used to assess intelligence and cognitive abilities in individuals ages 2 to 85. It measures five factors of intelligence: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and working memory. The SB5 takes around an hour to administer and provides scores on 10 subtests, 4 composite domains, and a Full Scale IQ score with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. It is a widely used and reliable measure of intelligence.

1. Stanford – Binet Intelligence
Scale: Fifth Edition
Alfred Binet Theodore Simon

2. HISTORY
APRIL 1905: DEVELOPMENT OF BINET-SIMON TEST
ANNOUNCED AT A CONFERENCE IN ROME
JUNE 1905: BINET-SIMON INTELLIGENCE TEST
INTRODUCED
1908 AND 1911: NEW VERSIONS OF BINET-SIMON
INTELLIGENCE TEST
1916: STANFORD-BINET FIRST EDITION BY TERMAN
1937: SECOND EDITION BY TERMAN AND MERRILL
1973: THIRD EDITION BY MERRILL
1986: FOURTH EDITION BY THORNDIKE, HAGEN, AND
SATTLER
2003: FIFTH EDITION BY ROID

3. TEST STRUCTURE

4. DESCRIPTION:
THE STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE: FIFTH
EDITION (SB:V) IS A STANDARDIZED TEST THAT MEASURES
INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF CHILDREN AND
ADULTS, FROM AGE TWO THROUGH MATURE ADULTHOOD.
PURPOSE: AN INDIVIDUALLY ADMINISTERED ASSESSMENT OF
INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES
AGES:2 TO 85+ YEARS
IT IS A TYPE OF OBJECTIVE TEST

5. PURPOSE
ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED TO HELP PLACE CHILDREN IN
APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS.
HELPS DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF INTELLECTUAL AND COGNITIVE
FUNCTIONING IN PRESCHOOLERS, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND
ADULTS
 MAY ASSIST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF A LEARNING DISABILITY,
DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY, MENTAL RETARDATION , OR GIFTEDNESS.
IT IS USED TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND
PLACEMENT, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, AND
RESEARCH. THE STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE IS
GENERALLY ADMINISTERED IN A SCHOOL OR CLINICAL SETTING.

6. USES
THE SB5 MAY BE USED TO DIAGNOSE A WIDE VARIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL
DISABILITIES AND EXCEPTIONALITIES AND MAY ALSO BE USEFUL IN:
• CLINICAL AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
• EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSESSMENT
• PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL EVALUATIONS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION
PLACEMENTS
• ADULT WORKERS COMPENSATION EVALUATIONS
• PROVIDING INFORMATION FOR INTERVENTIONS SUCH AS IFPS,
IEPS, CAREER ASSESSMENT, INDUSTRIAL SELECTION, AND ADULT
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT
• A VARIETY OF FORENSIC CONTEXTS
• RESEARCH ON ABILITIES AND APTITUDES

7. PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES
• IT WAS STANDARDIZED USING A SAMPLE WHICH CONSIST OF 4,800
INDIVIDUALS BETWEEN AGE 2 AND 85 WHICH REPRESENTS THE 2001 U.S.
CENSUS.
• SUITABLE FOR AGE RANGE OF 2 TO 85+ YEARS OF AGE
• RANGE OF POSSIBLE SCORES RUNS FROM A LOW OF 40 TO A HIGH OF
160
• RELIABILITY COEFFICIENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• FULL SCALE IQ - .98
• NONVERBAL & VERBAL - .95 TO .96
• FACTOR SCORES - .90 TO .92
• TEST-RETEST RELIABILITIES RANGE FROM HIGH .7’S TO LOW .9’S
DEPENDING ON AGE & TESTING INTERVAL
• FULL IQ TEST MEAN 100 SD 10

8. ADMINISTRATION OF TEST
•TAKES APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR TO ADMINISTER,
BUT BECAUSE OF THE TEST’S ADAPTIVE NATURE
OTHER SOURCES STATES THE IT REQUIRES
APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES PER SUBTEST
•TESTING BEGINS IN ITEM BOOK 1 WITH THE
ROUTING SUBTESTS. THE START POINTS FOR TWO
ROUTING SUBTESTS IN ITEM BOOK 1 ARE
DETERMINED BY AGE OR ESTIMATED ABILITY
LEVEL. NONVERBAL FLUID REASONING ROUTES
TO THE APPROPRIATE DIFFICULTY LEVEL IN ITEM
BOOK 2 (NONVERBAL), WHILE VERBAL
KNOWLEDGE DOES SO FOR ITEM BOOK 3
(VERBAL). THE REMAINING EIGHT SUBTESTS
(FOUR NONVERBAL AND FOUR VERBAL) ARE THEN
MEASURED IN ITEM BOOKS 2 AN

9. ADMINISTRATION OF TEST
• BEGINS WITH THE “OBJECT SERIES/MATRICES” SUBTEST, USED
TO ASSESS NON-VERBAL FLUID REASONING THIS IS ALSO USED
AS A “ROUTING” TEST; THE SCORE ON THIS TEST DETERMINES
WHERE THE EXAMINER BEGINS TESTING ON THE REMAINING
NON-VERBAL SUBTESTS
• HAS 36 ITEMS; USES COLOURED PLASTIC SHAPES, TOYS,
BLOCKS, THEN MATRICES
• EXAMINER BEGINS AT “THE ESTIMATED ABILITY LEVEL OF THE
EXAMINEE (USUALLY THE CHRONOLOGICAL AGE OF THE
PERSON)”

10. ADMINISTRATION OF TEST
• SB5 HAS 3 ITEM BOOKS, WHICH CONTAINS ALL ITS
QUESTIONS. AS DISCUSSED ABOVE THE 1ST ITEM BOOK
CONTAINS THE ROUTING SUBTESTS THAT WILL DETERMINE
WHERE THE TAKER’S START POINT IN THE SUBSEQUENT
ITEM BOOKS IS.
• THE FOLLOWING TEST IS THE VOCABULARY SUBTEST ONE
WHICH DETERMINES

11. FIVE FACTORS SB V
FACTORS NONVERBAL (NV) VERBAL (V)
Fluid Reasoning
(FR)
Nonverbal Fluid Reasoning
Activities: Object Series/Matrices
(Routing)
Verbal Fluid Reasoning
Activities: Early Reasoning ,
Verbal Absurdities , Verbal
Analogies
Knowledge
(KN)
Nonverbal Knowledge
Activities: Procedural Knowledge ,
Picture Absurdities
Verbal Knowledge
Activities: Vocabulary (Routing)
Quantitative Reasoning
(QR)
Nonverbal Quantitative Reasoning
Activities: Quantitative Reasoning
Verbal Quantitative Reasoning
Activities: Quantitative
Reasoning
Visual-Spatial Processing
(VS)
Nonverbal Visual-Spatial
Processing
Activities: Form Board, Form
Patterns
Verbal Visual-Spatial Processing
Activities: Position and Direction
Working Memory
(WM)
Nonverbal Working Memory
Activities: Delayed Response ,
Block Span
Verbal Working Memory
Activities: Memory for Sentences
, Last Word

12. PRECAUTIONS
THE STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE IS CONSIDERED TO
BE ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST WIDELY USED INTELLIGENCE
TESTS AVAILABLE. IT IS ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN PROVIDING
INTELLECTUAL ASSESSMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN,
ADOLESCENTS, AND YOUNG ADULTS. THE TEST HAS BEEN
CRITICIZED FOR NOT BEING COMPARABLE FOR ALL AGE
RANGES.
THIS IS BECAUSE DIFFERENT AGE RANGES ARE ADMINISTERED
BY DIFFERENT SUBTESTS. ADDITIONALLY, FOR VERY YOUNG
PRESCHOOLERS, IT IS NOT UNCOMMON TO RECEIVE A SCORE OF
ZERO DUE TO TEST DIFFICULTY OR THE CHILD'S UNWILLINGNESS
TO COOPERATE. CONSEQUENTLY, IT IS DIFFICULT
TO DISCRIMINATE ABILITIES IN THIS AGE GROUP AMONG THE
LOWER SCORERS.

13. SCORING AND INTERPRETATION
• THE SB5 CAN BE HAND-SCORED OR SCORED WITH OPTIONAL
SCORING SOFTWARE. AT THE MOST GRANULAR LEVEL OF THE
NORM-REFERENCED SCORES ARE THE TEN SUBTEST SCORES
(SCALED SCORES HAVE A MEAN OF 10, SD=3, SCORE RANGE 1-
19).
• THESE SUBTEST SCORES COMBINE TO FORM FOUR TYPES OF
COMPOSITE SCORES: FACTOR INDEX, DOMAIN, ABBREVIATED,
AND FULL SCALE (EACH WITH SCALED SCORE MEANS OF 100,
SD=15, SCORE RANGE 40-160).

14. • TWO SUBTESTS (ONE VERBAL, THE OTHER ITS NONVERBAL
COMPLEMENT) COMBINE TO FORM EACH FACTOR INDEX.
• THERE ARE TWO DOMAIN SCALES: NONVERBAL IQ (COMBINES
THE FIVE NONVERBAL SUBTESTS) AND VERBAL IQ (COMBINES
THE FIVE VERBAL SUBTESTS). TWO ROUTING SUBTESTS
COMBINE TO FORM THE ABBREVIATED BATTERY IQ. FINALLY,
THE FULL SCALE IQ COMBINES ALL TEN SUBTESTS.
• A VARIETY OF INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORKS CAN BE APPLIED
TO THE RESULTS OF THIS TEST. REFER TO THE EXAMINER'S
MANUAL, INTERPRETIVE MANUAL, OR THE SB5 SCORING PRO
SOFTWARE FOR GUIDANCE ON INTERPRETATION.

15. SB5 SCORING PRO SOFTWARE
• THE SB5 SCORING PRO IS A WINDOWS-BASED SOFTWARE PROGRAM
THAT REPLICATES THE PROCESS OF HAND-SCORING - USERS ENTER
BACKGROUND INFORMATION, AGE, AND RAW SCORES.
• THE REPORT CAN BE EXPORTED AND THEN IMPORTED TO A WORD
PROCESSING FILE FOR EDITING AS NECESSARY.
• SCORES RANGE FROM THE 2-YEAR-OLD LEVEL (ABOUT 430) TO THE
ADULT LEVEL (ABOUT 520). ALL OF THE SB5 ITEMS HAVE BEEN
CALIBRATED TO THIS SCALE, AND THE DIFFICULTY OF EACH ITEM HAS A
LOCATION ALONG THAT SCALE
• THE SCORES WILL BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR THE EVALUATION OF
EXTREME PERFORMANCE LEVELS
• THE INTERPRETIVE MANUAL DESCRIBES A HAND-SCORING PROCEDURE
FOR DERIVING AN EXTENDED FULL SCALE IQ SCORE THAT ALLOWS FOR
SCORES BELOW 40 AND ABOVE 160.

16. COMPONENTS
• THE SB5 COMPLETE KIT INCLUDES ALL 3 ITEM BOOKS,
EXAMINER'S MANUAL, TECHNICAL MANUAL, 25 TEST
RECORDS, CHILD CARD, LAYOUT CARD, A CARRYING CASE,
AND ALL MANIPULATIVE (FORM BOARD, 10 FORM BOARD
PIECES, 9 GREEN BLOCKS, 12 COUNTING RODS, 30 SORTING
CHIPS, SPOON, PENCIL, 3 PLASTIC CUPS, AND TOYS
INCLUDING CAT, BIRD, DUCK, BALL, CAR, AND SHOE) IN A
PLASTIC STORAGE CASE.

17. SAMPLE