The Mental Growth of Children from Two to Fourteen Years: A Study of the Predictive Value of the Minnesota Preschool Scales

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A description of the origin and standardization of the Minnesota Preschool Scales is followed by a study of the prediction, from measurements made during the preschool period, of later performances on the revised Stanford-Binet, the Arthur Performance Scale, and the Minnesota college abilities tests.
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148 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1,1975

About the author

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Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development. She was president of the Society for Research in Child Development from 1946-1947. She is best known for published book The Measurement of Intelligence, where she introduced the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test (now the Draw-A-Person Test) to assess intelligence in young children through nonverbal measurement. She is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. In 1931 she published two notable books titled Experimental Child Study (with John E. Anderson) and Anger in Young Children which analyzed the methods used in evaluating children. She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, becoming the first known psychologist to critique ratio I.Q.


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