History
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Kilde: http://www.testresearch.nl/sonro/conval.html (2015):
utdrag: "History of the SON tests.
The first SON test was published 50 years ago by Mrs. Nan Snijders-Oomen as a result of her work with children at the Institute for the Deaf in Sint-Michielsgestel (Snijders-Oomen, 1943). She was confronted with problems of assessing the learning ability of children who were severely handicapped in their language development. For this purpose general intelligence tests were not suited due to reliance on verbal skills, while nonverbal tests at that time consisted mainly of performance tests related to spatial abilities (like mazes, form boards, mosaics).
After extensive experimentation with existing and newly developed tasks, she constructed a test series which included nonverbal subtests related to abstract and concrete reasoning. Especially the capacities for abstraction and combination were considered important for the ability to participate in the educational system (Snijders-Oomen, 1943, p. 25-28). Mental age norms were constructed for deaf children from 4 to 14 years of age.
In the subsequent revision of 1958 the test series was expanded and standardized for deaf and hearing children from 3 to 17 years (SON-'58; Snijders & Snijders-Oomen, 1970). Both deviation IQ norms and mental age norms were established. With the second revision, different series of tests were developed for younger and older children: the SON 2.5-7 for children up to seven years, also known as the preschool SON (Snijders & Snijders-Oomen, 1976), and the SSON developed by Starren (1978) for the ages of 7 to 17 years.
Research results of these SON tests with various groups of children have been published. For instance, with deaf and hearing disabled children (Backer, 1966; Stachyra, 1971; Balkay & Engelmayer, 1974; Watts, 1979; Schaukowitsch, 1981; Zwiebel & Mertens, 1985), children with speech and language disorders (Grimm, 1987), children with learning disabilities and mentally retarded children (Sarimsky, 1982; Schmitz, 1985; Eunicke-Morell, 1989), autistic children (Steinhausen, Goebel, Breinlinger & Wohlleben, 1986; Süss-Burghart, 1993), motor handicapped children (Colin, Frischmann-Rosner, Liard & Magne, 1974; Constantin, 1975), children from ethnic minority groups (de Vries & Bunjes, 1989; Eldering & Vedder, 1992), normal children (Malhotra, 1972; Harris, 1979, 1982; Ditton, 1983; Melchers, 1986 ; Wolf, 1991; van Aken, 1992) and psychiatric patients (Plaum, 1975; Plaum & Duhm, 1985)
The latest revision of the SON test for older children, the SON-R 5.5-17, was published a few years ago (Snijders, Tellegen & Laros, 1989; Laros & Tellegen, 1991). In 1991 research was started for the revision of the SON 2.5-7 (Tellegen, Wijnberg, Laros & Winkel, 1992). Standardization of the test will take place this year and after validation studies with special groups of children the SON-R 2.5-7 will be published in 1994."
Bruk: 1989 - 2015 (Produksjonsår for testen og mulig bruksperiode på Nedre Gausen Kompetansesenter, Holmestrand)
- BruksstedNorge Vestfold Holmestrand Vestfold Skolegaten 1sikker
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- IdentifierNGKS.0040
- Part of collectionNedre Gausen Kompetansesenter/Statped
- Owner of collectionNord Jarlsberg Museene
- InstitutionNord-Jarlsbergmuseene
- Date publishedJanuary 21, 2017
- Date updatedDecember 16, 2023
- DIMU-CODE021026869281
- UUIDbfc3a486-af41-4920-ae12-7c2f0b492c60
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