Historicizing IQ Testing : Intelligence Assessments and Their Role in Norwegian Society from the 1900s to the Present.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aamot Caspersen, Håkon.

Contributor:

Aamot Caspersen

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2026.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Historicizing IQ Testing in Norway: Introduction

1. Between Change and Stability: The Thorny Adaptation Process of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in Norway

2. The Scandinavian Space of IQ Testing: Between Normal and Special Education, 1918-1940

3. A Legal History of Intelligence, Testing, and Criminal Unaccountability

4. IQ Testing and Sterilization in Norway, 1930 to 1960

5. Tools of the Trade: Psychotechnics, IQ Testing and the Making of the Psychological Profession in Norway, 1925-1947

6. From Segregation to Integration and the Role of Testing in a Norwegian Educational Psychology Office, 1953-1980

7. IQ Testing Today in Norway's Educational Psychological Services

8. 'Children Got Slightly Smarter with Fish for Lunch': The WPPSI Test, Randomized Trials, and Optimized Kindergartens

9. A Norwegian Terman-Merrill and the Shelf Life of Intelligence Tests

10. "Culture" and Representability in the Norwegian Standardization of WISC-R

11. 'A Violation of the Child's Integrity and of Parental Rights': The 1959 Controversy on IQ Testing of Norwegian Schoolchildren

12. Tests, Metrics, and the Making of the Norwegian School, 1950-2025

13. Drawing Boundaries, Building Barriers: Twentieth-Century US and Norwegian Intelligence Testing from a Comparative Perspective

14. IQ Testing, Education, Reification, and "Race" in Norway's Social Democratic Welfare State

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80511-618-5

1-80511-619-3

9781805116196