The Second Edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised with an additional chapter providing a powerful rebuttal to The Bell Curve. Ronald J Samuda presents a comprehensive analysis of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American minorities. He demonstrates that testing continues to be the primary method for injecting pseudoscientific arguments which bolster discrimination, prejudice and social injustice.

DM Psychol Testg Am Minor PB

Medical Books

Samuda, Ronald J.

Psychology

Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers

Psychological testing of American minorities: Issues and consequences

Dodd, Mead

Presenting the major trends, theories and practices in cross-cultural assessment, this volume focuses on intelligence and intelligence testing, particularly as applied to people from racial and ethnic minority groups who are also socioeconomically and culturally deprived. The theme running throughout is that IQ tests and traditional standardized tests of cognitive ability, while appropriate for middle-class mainstream individuals regardless of their race or ethnicity, are neither valid nor reliable for those who grow up in environments that are deficient - for example, because of inadequate rearing or serious economic stress. The book proposes alternative approaches to assessing cognitive ability in persons from such backgr

Advances in Cross-Cultural Assessment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kaufman, Alan S.

Sternberg, Robert J.

Feuerstein, Reuven

Lewis, John E.

Associates, n/a

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

Advances in Cross-Cultural Assessment (Republics)

Mental Health

Psychological Testing of American Minorities: Issues and Consequences (Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series)

The Second Edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised with an additional chapter providing a powerful rebuttal to The Bell Curve. Ronald J Samuda presents a comprehensive analysis of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American minorities. He demonstrates that testing continues to be the primary method for injecting pseudoscientific arguments which bolster discrimination, prejudice and social injustice.

This volume addresses the basic concept underlying cultural diversity in modern society, and aims to fill a void in the field of intercultural counselling: the need for global perspectives. The authors discuss the field of intercultural communication, review practical guidelines for training counsellors and for the assessment and placement of ethnic minorities.

Intercultural Counselling and Assessment: Global Perspectives

Hogrefe & Huber Pub

Standard testing procedures for assessing intelligence and abilities may lead to very misleading conclusions when dealing with children from cultural, linguistic or socioeconomic backgrounds which fall outside the mainstream. When decisions that determine a student's classroom placement and possible career path are based solely on standardized assessment tools, some children might be unfairly streamed into educational programs which underestimate their abilities, and may doom them to a future of intellectual and economic underachievement. Minority groups are over-represented in this situation, often for reasons that hold little justification upon close examination. This book serves as a resource for teacher education, as well as for those who must contend with assessment and placement issues in their daily professional duties.

Assessment and Placement of Minority Students

Multicultural Education: Programmes and Methods

C.J. Hogrefe

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