Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

Book excerpt: Children Above 180 is a small sampling of a special selection of gifted children. Leta Stetter Hollingworth conducts studies about the subjective experience of highly gifted children. Excerpt: "It was in November 1916, shortly after taking appointment as instructor in educational psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, that I saw for the first time a child testing above 180 IQ (S-B). I was teaching a course in the psychology of mentally deficient children, and it seemed to me that my class should if possible observe under test conditions one bright child for the sake of contrast."