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Call Number: SC0038
Creator:
Terman, Lewis M., (Lewis Madison), 1877-1956
Creator:
Terman, Lewis Madison, 1877-1956
Title: Lewis Madison Terman papers
Dates: 1910-1985
Physical Description:
37 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Custodial History
Gift of Terman Study Group, Frederick E. Terman, and Shirley Weingarten.
The materials are open for research.
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[Identification of 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.
Due to the removal of confidential materials, there are no boxes numbered 5, 6 or 7.
Bliven, Bruce,, 1889-1977.
Commission on Problem Children.
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941.
Hilgard, Ernest Ropiequet, 1904-
International Commission on Eugenics..
Jordan, David Starr,, 1851-1931.
Stanford University. Dept. of Psychology.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Terman, Lewis M., (Lewis Madison), 1877-1956
Tolman, Ruth.
Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 1875-1949.
Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956.
Education of children.
Eugenics.
Gifted children.
Intelligence tests.
Stanford-Binet test.