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Vernon, Philip A.; Jensen, Arthur R. – 1983
In a study of the relationship between speed of information processing and general intelligence, vocational college students (50 black males and 56 white males) took eight different reaction time tests measuring the speed with which individuals perform various elementary cognitive processes, and a group test of scholastic aptitude (the Armed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Cognitive Processes
Download full textReynolds, Cecil R.; Hartlage, Lawrence C. – 1978
Regression lines for the prediction of Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) scores by Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and WISC Revised (WISC-R) intelligence quotients were compared across race, by the Potoff technique. Subjects were 36 black and 30 white children who were referred for psychological evaluation because of learning or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Comparative Testing
Samuel, William; And Others – 1974
While debates over the heritability of IQ and the potential for culture bias in measuring instruments have generated much research and public comment, it is also possible to investigate the significance of interracial differences in mean IQ by ignoring both the foregoing issues and instead examining the social psychology of the test situation…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Intelligence Differences
Cancro, Robert – 1974
Noting that many of the attacks on individual scientists as well as some of the attacks on the field of behavior genetics are more than intemperate--they are non-rational--the author discusses his experience as a signatory to a document drawn up by Ellis B. Page during the winter of 1971-1972. The intent of this controversial document was to…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Biological Influences
Gartner, Alan, Ed.; And Others – 1974
This book includes nine essays. In the Introduction: "The Lingering Infatuation with IQ," the editors argue that since the IQ test has again risen as an instrument of conservative policy, the test and the arguments built around it must be reexamined. Noam Chomsky criticizes the well-known "Atlantic" article, "IQ" (September, 1971), in "The Fallacy…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Economic Opportunities, Environmental Influences, Heredity
Hunt, J. McVicker – 1972
"Psychological Assessment in Education and Social Class," a paper presented at the University of Missouri conference on the "Legal and Educational Consequences of the Intelligence Testing Movement: Handicapped and Minority Group Children," is provided. The historical origins of the scheme of norm-referenced testing and the evidence questioning its…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Culture Fair Tests, Disadvantaged, Environment
Peer reviewedJones, Byrd L.; Collins, Moira E. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1995
Urges educators and citizens to ignore the hype surrounding "The Bell Curve" and to grasp the ethnocentrism (or racism) that underlies eugenicist arguments. Both Carnoy and Ladson-Billings offer hope to those supporting educational equity and the appreciation of diversity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Equal Education
Peer reviewedCimera, Robert Evert – Mental Retardation, 1998
The relationship between cost-efficiency and personal characteristics of 111 supported employees were examined. When sheltered workshops were used as alternative placements, supported employees with high IQS benefited more from employment within the community than did supported employees with lower IQS. From society's perspective, African-American…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness
McNiel, Nathaniel Dewey – 1975
The purpose of the study was to compare the performances of black and white urban high school students on a conventional measure of intelligence, the Lorge Thorndike vocabulary test and a culture specific test, the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity. In addition to determining whether or not there were race differences in performance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students
Gartner, Alan; Riessman, Frank – 1973
Once again intelligence tests are being used as the major basis to establish the genetically determined limitations of minority and economically disadvantaged groups. By reviewing the arguments regarding the I.Q. test and the hereditability of intelligence, the author compares these with two sets of phenomena: the I.Q. test scores and the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences
Sitgreaves, Rosedith – 1969
This paper repudiates Jensen's hypothesis that differences in IQ scores and scholastic achievement in Negro and white children are genetically based. Specifically, Jensen's identification of IQ scores as a measure of abstract reasoning and problem solving and of levels of ability, and his evaluation of the magnitude of the genetic component in IQ…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Environmental Influences
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Grade 4, Graphs, Individual Differences
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Grade 5, Graphs, Individual Differences
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Grade 5, Graphs, Individual Differences
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Grade 6, Graphs, Individual Differences
