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1/ ADJUSTMENT OR ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT- AN ADAPTIBILITY TO NEW SITUATIONS- CAPACITY TO DEAL WITH A RANGE OF SITUATIONS 2/ ABILITY TO LEARN- EDUCABILITY 3/ ABSTRACT THINKING-ABILITY TO USE A WIDER RANGE OF CONCEPTS AND SYMBOLS(VERBAL OR NONVERBAL) 2

ABILITY/APTITUDE/ ACHIEVEMENT ABILITY IS THE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE POWER TO PERFORM. APTITUDE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR PERFORMANCE AFTER TRAINING. ACHIEVEMENT IS A SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE IN THE PAST. 3

INTELLIGENCE TESTS  ALFRED BINET/20 TH CENTURY/PARIS.  QUANTIFICATION WAS A VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF BINET AND SIMON’S WORKS.  QUANTIFICATION BECOME ESTABLISHES DURING WORLD WAR ONE. 4

RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY  ALL TESTS (OBJECTIVE/PROJECTIVE) MUST DEMONSTRATE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY IN ORDER TO BE USEFUL. 5

RELIABILITY CONSISTENCY WITH WHICH INDIVIDUALS RESPOND TO TEST STIMULI. THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF EVALUATING RELIABILITY: TEST-RETEST EQUIVALENT OR PARALLEL FORM OF A TEST SPLIT-HALF RELIABILITY 6

VALIDITY VALIDITY: AN ASSESSMENT MEASURES WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO MEASURE. THERE ARE SEVERAL FORM OF VALIDITY: CONTENT VALIDITY PREDICTIVE VALIDITY CONCURRENT VALIDITY 7

IQ AND ITS MEANING EACH ITEM OF SUCCESSFULLY PASSED ON A BINET TEST SIGNIFIED SO MANY MONTHS CREDIT. MENTAL AGE(MA) IS IMPORTANT INDEX OF MENTAL PERFORMANCE (BINET). IQ=INTELLIGENT QUTION 8

IQIQ  CHRONOLOGICAL AGE(CA) IS DIFFERENTE OF MA.  INTELLIGENCE GROWTH IS MUCH MORE RAPID AT YOUNGER AGE LEVEL.  WHO IS SMARTER? A CHILD WITH MA=4, CA=5 OR MA=14,CA=15 9

IQ IQ= MA / CA x 100  15Y/O CHILD HAS:IQ= 93  4 Y/O CHILD HAS: IQ= 80 NORMAL RANGE OF IQ= MENTAL RETARDATION:IQ<70 SUPERIOR : IQ>120 10

STANFORD-BINET SCALE  HAS TWENTY AGE LEVEL.  HAS SIX ITEM AT EACH LEVEL.  EACH ITEM COVER ONE OR TWO MONTH OF MENTAL AGE.  LAST VERSION (1986) IS RADICALLY DIFFERENT. 11

WECHSLER SCALE 1/ WAIS: WECHSLER ADULT INTEL SCALE 2/ WISC: WECHSLER INTEL SCALE FOR CHILDREN 12

WAIS  HAS 11 SUBTEST.  FIRST SIX SUBTESTS ARE VERBAL SCALES:  1/ INFORMATION/  2/ COMPREHENTION/  3/ ARITHMETIC/  4/ SIMILARITIES/  5/ DIGIT SPAN/  6/ VOCABULARY/ 13

WAIS  SUBTESTS 7 TO 11 ARE PERFORMANCE SCALES:  7/ DIGIT SYMBOL/  8/ PICTURE COMPLETION/  9/ BLOCK DESIGN/  10/ PICTURE ARRANGEMENT/  11/ OBJECT ASSEMBLY/ 14

MENTAL RETARDATION  PERFOUND <  SEVER  MODERATE  MILD BORDERLINE

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