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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Lewis Madison Terman papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0038
Physical Description:
289.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1910-1992
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Gift of Terman Study Group, Frederick E. Terman, and Shirley Weingarten. Additional
materials transferred from Department of Psychology, 2013.
Study participant files and questionnaires restricted due to compliance with Special
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Participant Files, and Addenda, 2014-004 Sub-Series 2.
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[item], Lewis Madison Terman papers (SC0038), Stanford University Archives, Stanford,
Calif.
Lewis Madison Terman was born in Johnson County, Indiana, on January 15, 1877. He received
his A.B. and A. M. from Indiana University and his Ph.D. from Clark University. He came to
Stanford in 1910 to teach in the Department of Education; from 1910 to 1916 he worked on
constructing an American version of Binet's intelligence test, which he reported in
The Measure of Intelligence (Houghton, Mifflin,
1916).
His success with this brought him to the attention of the U. S. Army; he was a member of
the committee on Psychological Examination of Recruits and of the Committee on
Classification of Personnel, U. S. Army, 1918-1919, and served as a major in the division of
psychology, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C.
He returned to Stanford in 1919 as a professor of psychology and taught until 1943, when he
was appointed professor emeritus, a position he held until his death in 1956. In 1919 he
began his study of gifted children, which he published in
The Genetic Studies of Genius, Vol. I, II, and II.
He was a member of the following organizations: The American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (president, 1923), the
National Educational Association, the National Society for the Study of Education, the
National Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.
Among his other publications were
The Stanford
Achievement Test,
1923;
Children's Reading,
1925;
Sex and Personality, 1936;
Marital Happiness, 1938; and
The Gifted Child Grows Up, 1947.
Terman's papers include correspondence and data for his study of the gifted; professional
correspondence with colleagues; and correspondence and data on tests and testing: Army Alpha
and Beta tests, Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence scale, Stanford
Achievement Test, Terman McNemar Test of Mental Ability, Terman Group Test,
Attitude-Interest Analysis Tests, and Male Female Tests.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Education of children.
Eugenics.
Gifted children.
Intelligence tests
Stanford-Binet test.