Title: Intelligence testing and minority students : foundations, performance factors, and assessment issues /
Authors: Valencia, Richard R.; Suzuki, Lisa A., 1961-
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Intelligence Tests; Cognition; Minority Groups psychology; Intelligence genetics; Minorities Psychological testing United States.; Intelligence levels United States; Intelligence tests United States.; Intellect Genetic aspects; Cognition.; United States; United States
Contents: pt. 1. Foundations. Historical issues. The emergence of the intelligence testing movement. The importation and cultural appropriation of the Binet-Simon scale by U.S. psychologists. Ideology of the intelligence testing movement. Race psychology studies of intellectual performance. Mexican Americans. African Americans. American Indians. Actual use of IQ tests in curriculum differentiation during the 1920s. Heterodoxy. Group intelligence testing takes on a life of its own. The emergence of contemporary testing issues. Litigation. Neohereditarianism . Test bias research. Underrepresentation of minority students in gifted progra ms. Nondiscriminatory assessment. Multicultural perspectives of intelligence : theory and measurement. Issues. The search for a common definition of intelligence.