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Measuring Minds : Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing - No Information Available

Measuring Minds

Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

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Hardcover | 29 June 1998

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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 hospitals to classrooms to courtrooms. It shows how testers used their findings to address the most pressing social and political questions of their day, including povery, crime, prostitution, alcoholism, immigration restriction, and military preparedness. It also explores the broader legacies of the testing movement by showing how Goddard's ideas helped to reshape the very meaning of mental retardation, special education, clinical psychology, and the "normal" mind in ways that would be felt for the rest of the century.
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' ... excellent ... should be read by anyone with serious scientific or political interests in intelligence and its measurement'. Times Higher Education Supplement 'Beautifully written and always interesting. This is a sensible and charitable book. Most psychologists could learn a thing or two about it.' The Psychologist 'This book is a magnificent reconstruction of Goddard's life and work.' Ethnic and Racial Studies 'Measuring Minds works on multiple levels. Most importantly, it is enjoyable to read. It presents the gripping story of a man who built an enormously successful career and then found himself rather suddenly assigned the part of the incompetent scientist blinded by right-wing prejudice. Secondly, Measuring Minds informs the reader not only of the early American intelligence test movement but also of the history of child study and the history of eugenics.' British Journal of Psychology

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