Boost the validity of IQ testing in multilingual children
About 20% of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English at home. Most of them consider English to be their second language. Some people have such limited English proficiency, that it would be inaccurate to even consider English as their second language. But here’s a logical question: what if these people were to...
Assessment of intelligence or cognitive abilities has long been a controversial issue due to the unclear definition of intelligence, the innate bias of standardized assessment tests, and the relationship between the scores on intelligence and achievement tests. Apart from those general problems another issue with intelligence assessment represents the assessment of children from ethnic...
There’s a major question that has stumped psychologists for quite a long time: “How do you measure or assess intelligence in an unbiased and accurate manner?” Is it even possible? One of those psychologists is Dr. Gary A. Plank who became particularly interested in American Indian children/adolescents and the methods of intelligence testing they had...
It’s always the patterns that grasp our attention the most. Whenever something happens too frequently, in an unexplained manner, that’s when we begin to question it. In 1968, Lloyd Dunn was among the first to realize that there was a disproportionate number of minority students in special education classrooms. A couple of years later, Evelyn...
For decades, psychologists have been concerned with IQ measurement. It’s always been a method of assessing a child’s intelligence and a criterion for their educational placement. However, as important as IQ measurements are, very little attention has been given to the types of IQ measures. Generally speaking, there are two types of IQ measures: verbal...