GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
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He didn’t feel that the other tests adequately measured intelligence levels in adults.
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He felt that knowing someone’s mental age was important.
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He needed a formula for comparing mental age to chronological age.
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He wanted to know how someone was going to do in school.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He felt that knowing someone’s mental age was important. He needed a formula for comparing mental age to chronological age. He wanted to know how someone was going to do in school.
Detailed explanation-2: -From these he derived the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in 1949 and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) in 1967. Wechsler originally created these tests to find out more about his patients at the Bellevue clinic and he found the then-current Binet IQ test unsatisfactory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Wechsler Intelligence Scales are among the most widely used assessment instruments for determining a child’s intellectual abilities and particular strengths and weaknesses in cognitively understanding his or her world (Cohen, Swerdlik, & Smith, 1992).