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Intelligence Testing and Minority Students: Foundations, Performance Factors, and Assessment Issues (Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology Series) - Hardcover

Valencia, Richard R.; Suzuki, Lisa A.

 
9780761912309: Intelligence Testing and Minority Students: Foundations, Performance Factors, and Assessment Issues (Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0761912304 ISBN 13: 9780761912309
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Intelligence Testing and Minority Students offers the reader a fresh opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing. Richard R. Valencia and Lisa A. Suzuki 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; discuss the specific performance factors which apply to IQ testing of those in minority ethnic groups.

This practical book offers the practitioner a good sense of what can be done to make testing and education serve the needs of all students fairly and validly, whatever their background.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Intellectual and academic development of racial/ethnic minority children; psychometric evaluation of intelligence and achievement tests; social and psychological foundations of minority schooling; minority school failure and success; teacher testing and prospective minority teachers.

Lisa A. Suzuki Is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. She is co-editor with Dr. Joseph Ponterotto of the Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological and Educational Applications now in its third edition. She is also co-editor of Qualitative Strategies for Ethnocultural Research with Drs. Nagata and Kohn-Wood. Her main research interests have been in the areas of multicultural assessment and qualitative research methods.

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Intelligence Testing and Minority Students offers the reader a fresh opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing. Richard R. Valencia and Lisa A. Suzuki 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; discuss the specific performance factors which apply to IQ testing of those in minority ethnic groups. This practical book offers the practitioner a good sense of what can be done to make testing and education serve the needs of all students fairly and validly, whatever their background.

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Verlag
Sage Publications, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761912304
ISBN 13 
9780761912309
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
388
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