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Solkoff, Norman – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1974
Concludes that where significant interaction between the child and the examiner took place, black children achieved their highest scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children with a white examiner. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Individual Testing
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Marlaire, Courtney L.; Maynard, Douglas W. – Sociology of Education, 1990
Describes and analyzes the social organization of testing as an interactional phenomenon. Provides examples of exchanges between clinician and child in a diagnostic testing situation. States these coorientational activities demonstrate that testing has an interactional basis. Explores the implications for research on bias in mental testing. (NL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education