GODDARD ADMINISTRATiON & SCORING MANUAL

METHOD OF ADMINISTERING
GODDARD (SEGUIN)
FORMBOARD
(Age group 3 to 10)
First, put the formboard on the table in front of the child and
heaps as shown in the figure below: arrange the insets in

ARRANGEMENT OF INSETS
in heavs
FORMBOARD

AA
Subject

Figure I
Then tell the child, "You have to
arrange these insets into the formboard acc rding
to their
shapes as quickly as you can. I will give you three trials to do so."
Demonstrate once how to arrange the insets into the formboard.
*For the left-handed child the insets should be
arranged in heaps on the left-hand side of the
child and the examiner should sit on the
As soon as the child starts to
right-hand side of the child.
arrange the insets, start the stop-watch and when he
finishes the work, stop the
stop-watch immediately. If some child is seen to be
wasting time in struggling to arrange some inset in a wrong place, help him to doit
rightly, but do not take into account that trial. Of the three trials that you give to
each child,
consider only the one in which he takes the least time and find out
his/her 1Q by referring to Table 1 and II. Determine the age of the child from his
birth-date. If the age of the child is
approximate, his 1Q will also be approximate.
This test gives
approximate 1Q only, and for knowing his/her more reliable
you an

IQ, a test like the

Wechsler Pre-school and
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) or
(WISC) should be used. Both these tests'
Gujarati adaptations have been published.
TABLE 1 NORMS

Age in Shortest time Age in Shortest Age in Shortest

years of three trials years time of three | Years time of
in seconds trials in
three trials
seconds in seconds
3 68 8 22 13 14
3.5 56 8.5 21 13.5 13.5
46 9 20 14 13
4.5 40 9.5 18.5 14.5 12.6
5 35 10 18 15 2
5.5 31 10.5 17.5 6 12.5
28 11 6 17 12
6.5 27 11.5 15.5 18 11
7 25 12 15 19 10.5

7.5 3
**
12.5 14.5 20 - -
10

BCG-SFB Payc I of 4 1
 GODDARD ADMINIsTRATION & SCORING MANUAI.

TABLE I1
READYRECKONER OF1Qs

Deviation Minus Plus

Deviation Minus Plus
deviation deviatioon
from deviation deviation from
the normn IQs IQs
the norm IQs IQs
121 79
0.3 101 99 7.1
7.4 122 78
0.6 102 98
97 7.8 123 17
1.0 103
96 8.1 124 76
1.3 104 75
8.4 125
1.6 105 95
126 74
106 94 8.7
2.0 73
93 9.0 127
2.3 107
9.3 128 72
2.6 108
9.6 129 71
3.0 109
10.0 130 70
110 90
3.3 69
89 10.3 131
3.6 111
132 68
.

112 88 10.6
4.0 67
87 10.9 133
4.4 113
11.2 134 66
4.7 114 86
11.6 135 65
5.0 115 85
11.9 136 64
5.4 116 84
137 63
117 83 12.2
5.7
12.6 138 62
6.0 118 82
12.9 139 61
6.4 119 81
60
6.8 120 B0 13.2 140

norms and find out the

difference of the least
Refer the age of the child to the table of
difference
time taken by him in three trials from
the n o r m for that age. Refer that
of Ready Reckoner and read off the 1Q of the
with its or minus sign to the table
plus
child corresponding to the difference from the
norm.

the work in 23, 24 and 22 seconds in

three
For example, a child of 7 years finishes
seconds, which i s - 3 seconds
trials. The least time taken in the third trial is 22
If refer - 3 to Table 1I, the 1Q of
different from 25 seconds for the n o r m of 7 years.
we

the child comes to 109.

Reliability and Validity: test with marks

Test-Retest after 2 months: N-53, 0.66 correlation of the
reliability
SD of scores-5, SD
at the terminal examination of pupils of age 6 to 10: N--37, 0.52,
of 1Q-15

BCG-SFB Page 2 ot 1 2
 GODDARD ADMINISTRATION & SCORING MANUAL

Mental age (MA) Shortest of the Total of 3

TRIALS (secs.) TRIALS (secs.)
56 216
4 16 161
4% 10 133
35 123
5
114
5
27 105
6
25 98
6
7 23 90
21 83
7h
8 20 77
8 19 72
18 68
9% 17 64
10 16 61
10 16 58
11 15 55
11 h 14 h 52
12 14 49
12 13 % 46
13 13 43
13h 12 % 41
14 12 % 39
14 1 12 37
15 2 36
16 11 % 35
17 11 35
18 101 34
19 101 34
20 10 34
Convert the score into mental age (MA) by referring to the norms.
Intelligence Quotient (1Q) by the formula 1Q = (MA/CA) x 100 where CA is
Compute
chronological age.
Noms from Guide to Mental Testing by R. B.Catell
Classification of Intelligence

Very Superior above 130

Superior 121 130
Bright Normal 111 120
Average 90- 1110
Dull Normal 80 89
Borderline 70 79 Slow learners (71- 89)
Mild (MR) 51-69 -

Educable (MR) (51- 70)

Moderate (MR) 3650 - Trainable (MR) (36 -

50)
Severe (MR) 25 35
Profound Below 25
(Educable category can use help from special educator; trainable will
activities that are mechanical, repetitive, and manage only
non-reasoning)

BCG-SIR
Page 3 of4 3
 GODDARD ADMINISTRA'rION & ScORING MANO

SFB ANSWER SHEET RECORD

NAME: STD:
AGE:
BIRTHDATE:.
TESTED BY:_ DATE:
LANGUAGEUSED WHILE TESTING:

TRIAL TIME TAKEN OBSERVATIONS

TRIAL 1

TRIAL 2
TRIAL 3

LEAST TIME:

cORRESPONDING MA:

MA
IQ= ** X 100 =

CA

1Q (from direct reckoner)

=

NOTES:

DATE:
SIGNATURE:

Paye of 4 4
BCG-SFB