... based on the work on social intelligence undertaken by Thorndike around 1920. All of this work suggests that our concept of Intelligence is dynamic, depending on the contemporary challenges facing the society or group, which we are measuring. This concept has been embodied within the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.2 As a result, Gardner et al, do not believe that traditional IQ tests are a satisfactory measure of intelligence, which takes us to their historical development. Alfred Binet, a French psychologist and lawyer developed the first successful intelligence test in 1904 for the French Government, which wished to identify students in need of supplementary education. This became the basis of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale, published in 1905. The Stanford-Binet test was devised by Lewis Terman in 1916 and looks at four areas of intelligence, namely, verbal reasoning, abstract and visual reasoning, quantitative reasoning and short term memory. By far the most widely known measure ...

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