What is Alfred Binet?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Alfred Binet | image = Alfred Binet.jpg | image_size = | caption = Alfred Binet | birth_date = {{birth-date|8 July 1857}} | birth_place = [[Nice]], France | death_date = 18 October 1911<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.psychology.sbc.edu/Alfred%20Binet.htm |title=Alfred Binet |access-date=2012-01-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823091541/http://www.psychology.sbc.edu/Alfred%20Binet.htm |archive-date=2011-08-23 }}'', (February 20, 2004).</ref> | death_place = [[Paris]], France | known_for = [[Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales]]<br>Binet–Simon test | nationality = French | field = [[Psychology]] | influences = [[John Stuart Mill]] | influenced = [[Jean Piaget]] | spouse = Laure Balbiani }} '''Alfred Binet''' ({{IPA-fr|binɛ|lang}}; 8 July 1857&nbsp;– 18 October 1911) was a French [[psychologist]] who invented the first practical [[IQ test]]. This is called the Binet–Simon test.<ref>O.L. Zangwill, 'Binet, Alfred', in R. Gregory, ''The Oxford Companion to the Mind''. 1987, p88.</ref> In 1905, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to find which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction. They could be given remedial work. With his collaborator [[Théodore Simon]], Binet published revisions of his test in 1908 and 1911, the last of which appeared just before his death. In 1984, the journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' 84 picked the Binet-Simon scale as one of twenty of the century's most significant developments or discoveries. == Reference == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Binet, Alfred}} [[Category:French psychologists]] [[Category:Tests]] [[Category:1857 births]] [[Category:1911 deaths]] [[Category:French sociologists]] [[Category:People from Nice]] [[Category:Statisticians]]