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Intelligence testing and minority students : foundations, performance factors, and assessment issues / Richard R. Valencia, Lisa A. Suzuki.
LIBRA BF431.5.U6 V35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valencia, Richard R.
- Series:
- Racial and ethnic minority psychology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Psychological testing--United States.
- Minorities.
- Intelligence levels--United States.
- Intelligence levels.
- Intelligence tests.
- Minorities--Psychological testing.
- United States.
- Intelligence tests--United States.
- Intellect--Genetic aspects.
- Intellect.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2001]
- Summary:
- This volume offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of research findings, controversial issues, and assessment advancements regarding intelligence testing and racial/ethnic minority children and youth. Intelligence Testing and Minority Students begins with discussions of historical issues and multicultural perspectives of intelligence. The text then examines four factors (e.g., socioeconomic status; home environment; test bias; heredity) that have been advanced to explain the persistent difference in mean intellectual performance between minority and White groups. Finally, this book focuses on issues germane to the intellectual assessment of minority students (e.g., identification of gifted minority students; striving for nondiscriminatory assessments).
- Contents:
- Part I Foundations
- 1. Historical Issues 3
- The Emergence of the Intelligence Testing Movement in Europe 4
- The Importation and Cultural Appropriation of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by U.S. Psychologists 5
- Ideology of the Intelligence Testing Movement 7
- "Race Psychology" Studies of Intellectual Performance 8
- Actual Use of IQ Tests in Curriculum Differentiation During the 1920s 14
- Heterodoxy 17
- Group Intelligence Testing Taking On a Life of Its Own 21
- The Emergence of Contemporary Testing Issues 22
- 2. Multicultural Perspectives of Intelligence: Theory and Measurement Issues 26
- The Search for a Common Definition of Intelligence 29
- The Split Between Theory and the Measurement of Intelligence 30
- Theoretical Frameworks Incorporating Cultural Aspects of Intelligence 30
- Emotional, Practical, and Creative Aspects of Intelligence 35
- Assessment-Based Models of Intelligence 37
- Group Differences in Intelligence 39
- Racial/Ethnic Profiles of Intelligence 41
- Cultural Perspectives of Intelligence 42
- The Complexities of Multicultural Perspectives of Intelligence 44
- Part II Performance Factors
- 3. Socioeconomic Status 49
- The Meaning and Measurement of SES 52
- SES and Intelligence: Historical Perspectives 53
- Research Findings: African Americans 58
- Research Findings: Mexican Americans 65
- SES and Intelligence: Contemporary Perspectives 70
- 4. Home Environment 82
- Early Research (1920s) 83
- Influences of Piaget, Hunt, and Bloom 84
- Origins of the "Chicago" School of Family Environment Research 86
- Influence of the Chicago School of Family Environment Research 89
- Home Environment Research by Caldwell, Bradley, and Associates 89
- Home Environment Research From Behavioral Genetics 90
- Home Environment Research: African Americans 94
- Home Environment Research: Mexican Americans 102
- 5. Test Bias 111
- The Emergence of Claims and Counterclaims of Cultural Bias in Intelligence Tests 112
- The Concepts of "Cultural Loading" and "Cultural Bias" 113
- Cultural Bias in Intelligence Tests: A Review of Research Findings 117
- Appendix A 62 Cultural Bias Studies Examined and Used in the Review 146
- Appendix B Intelligence Tests Examined for Cultural Bias 150
- 6. Heredity 151
- Issues in Human Behavioral Genetics 152
- Going Beyond the Nature-Nurture Debate 157
- Racial/Ethnic Group Mean Differences in Measured Intelligence: The Role of Genetics 160
- Part III Assessment Issues
- 7. Race/Ethnicity, Intelligence, and Special Education 187
- Historical Issues Regarding the Use of Intelligence Tests in Educational Placement 188
- The Role of Intelligence Tests in the Definitions of Handicapping Conditions 191
- Defining Mental Retardation and LD 195
- Racial/Ethnic Incidence Data Regarding Students Classified as Mentally Retarded and Learning Disabled 201
- Future Directions for Special Education 205
- 8. Gifted Minority Students 208
- Historical Sketch of Giftedness in the United States 210
- Issues 219
- Gifted African American Students 235
- Gifted Latino Students 239
- Gifted Asian/Pacific Islander Students 243
- Gifted American Indian Students 245
- 9. A Multicultural Review of Cognitive Ability Instruments 249
- Areas Assessed by Current Cognitive Tests 250
- Current Test Development Strategies 257
- Racial and Ethnic Profiles of Abilities and Discrepancies Yielded by Traditional Cognitive Tests 273
- Current Procedural Modifications of Traditional Cognitive Tests 278
- 10. Future Directions and Best-Case Practices: Toward Nondiscriminatory Assessment 282
- Assessment Competencies 285.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-363) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0761912304
- OCLC:
- 43859346
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