However, it wasn't until psychologist Alfred Binet was asked to identify which students needed educational assistance that ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, developed the first official IQ test in the early 20th century to measure intellectual abilities. An average IQ score is set at 100, with most people scoring ...

Intelligence testing began in the early 1900s. French scientist Alfred Binet created the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in 1905. Binet sought to identify special education pupils, not rate them.