Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 289.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Undetermined .
- Preferred citation:
-
[item], Lewis Madison Terman papers (SC0038), Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
-
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.
- Biographical / historical:
-
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.
- Custodial history:
-
Gift of Terman Study Group, Frederick E. Terman, and Shirley Weingarten. Additional materials transferred from Department of Psychology, 2013.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
-
Study participant files and questionnaires restricted due to compliance with Special Collections and University Archives' Access to Health Information of Individuals Policy. This policy is avaible here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hmskaj0_pxqz-jt9MY00mKe32IZUM0EzQt66LMMvwIU/edit?usp=sharing
This includes, Series 6: Collection of Data on Child Prodigies, Series 14: Study Participant Files, and Addenda, 2014-004 Sub-Series 2.
All other materials are open for research.
- Terms of access:
-
Copyright has been transferred to Stanford University for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Preferred citation:
-
[item], Lewis Madison Terman papers (SC0038), Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
-
Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022