Intelligence testing and minority students: foundations, performance factors, and assessment issues
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Main Author: Valencia, Richard R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications c2001
Series:Racial and ethnic minority psychology series
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-363) and indexes
Historical issues -- Multicultural perspectives of intelligence: Theory and measurement issues -- Socioeconomic status -- Home environment -- Test bias -- Heredity -- Race / Ethnicity, Intelligence, and Special Education -- Gifted minority students -- A multicultural review of cognitive ability instruments -- Future directions and best-case practices: Toward nondiscriminatory assessment -- subject index
This book offers the reader a fresh opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing. The authors discuss the strengths and limitations of IQ testing relative to the factors which may contribute to biased results. They review the history of the adaptation and adoption of intelligence testing; evaluate the heredity-environment debate; and discuss the specific performance factors which apply to IQ testing of those in minority ethnic groups
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 388 p.)
ISBN:0761912304
145225088X
9780761912309
9781452250885

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