A National Research Council committee secured a $25,000 General Education Board grant to develop intelligence tests for school children¶

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q1 i? Early in 1919 a special committee of the National Research Council, chaired by R. M. Yerkes, secured a $25,000 grant from the General Education Board to work out a series of intelligence tests for use with school children. → Bell 1919

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Bell 1919¶

Bell, J. C. (1919). Editorial: The National Research Council. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume X, No. 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Educational_Psychology

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The editor's report in the journal's editorial section names the committee members and states it "secured from the General Education Board a grant of $25,000" to develop school intelligence tests modeled on army tests. No independent data are reported; this is the editor's factual announcement.

"Early in 1919 a special committee of the National Research Council consisting of Dr. R. M. Yerkes, chair- man, Dr. M. E. Haggerty, of the University of Minnesota, Dr. L. M. Terman, of Stanford University, Dr. E. L. Thorndike, of Teachers College, Columbia University, and Dr. G. M. Whipple, of the University of Michigan, secured from the General Education Board a grant of $25,000 for the purpose of working out a series of tests of intelligence for use with school children, similar to those already employed in the army."

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