Perspectives on Bias in Mental Testing
The cultural-test-bias hypothesis is one of the most important scien tific questions facing psychology today. Briefly, the cultural-test-bias hypothesis contends that all observed group differences in mental test scores are due to a built-in cultural bias of the tests themselves; that is, group sco...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
| Series: | Perspectives on Individual Differences
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Bias in Mental Testing: An Introduction to the Issues
- 2 Methodological, Statistical, and Ethical Issues in the Study of Bias in Psychological Tests
- 3 An Experimental Model of Bias in Mental Testing
- 4 IQ Testing as the Emperor’S New Clothes: A Critique of Jensen’S Bias in Mental Testing
- 5 Bias in Mental Testing: Evidence for an Alternative to the Heredity-Environment Controversy
- 6 College Entrance Examinations: Objective Selection or Gatekeeping for the Economically Privileged
- 7 General Intelligence
- 8 The Effect of Race on Human Abilities and Mental Test Scores
- 9 What is a Racially and Culturally Nondiscriminatory Test? A Sociological and Pluralistic Perspective
- 10 Digits Backward and the Mercer-Kamin Law: An Empirical Response to Mercer’S Treatment of Internal Validity of IQ Tests
- 11 Test Bias: Concepts and Criticisms
- Postscript: Bernal Replies
- Author Index