Alfred Binet was a French

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 psychologist

Psychologist

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 who was the inventor of the first usable intelligence test, known at that time as the Binet test and today referred to as the IQ test. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum. Along with his collaborator Théodore Simon

Theodore Simon

Théodore Simon was a French psychologist and psychometrician. He co-created the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale tests with Alfred Binet.- Biography :...

, Binet published revisions of his intelligence scale in 1908 and 1911, the last appearing just before his death.

A further refinement of the Binet-Simon scale was published in 1916 by Lewis M.