Intelligence testing and minority students : foundations, performance factors, and assessment issues / Richard R. Valencia, Lisa A. Suzuki.

By:

Valencia, Richard R

Contributor(s):

Suzuki, Lisa A, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Racial and ethnic minority psychology seriesPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 388 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781452250885
145225088X
9781452231860
1452231869

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intelligence testing and minority students.DDC classification:

153.9/3/086930973 22

LOC classification:

BF431.5.U6

NLM classification:

2000 N-789
BF 431.5.U6

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-363) and indexes.

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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.

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