Intelligence testing and minority students foundations, performance factors, and assessment issues
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications
c2001.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Racial and ethnic minority psychology series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798001706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Foundations; Chapter 1 - Historical Issues; Chapter 2 - Multicultural Perspectives of Intelligence: Theory and Measurement Issues; Part II - Performance Factors; Chapter 3 - Socioeconomic Status; Chapter 4 - Home Environment; Chapter 5 - Test Bias; Chapter 6 - Heredity; Part III - Assessment Issues; Chapter 7 - Race/Ethnicity, Intelligence, and Special Education; Chapter 8 - Gifted Minority Students; Chapter 9 - A Multicultural Review of Cognitive Ability Instruments
- Chapter 10 - Future Directions and Best-Case Practices: Toward Nondiscriminatory AssessmentNotes; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Authors
