Intelligence Testing and Minority Students: Foundations, Performance Factors, and Assessment Issues

by Richard R. Valencia and Lisa A. Suzuki

Book Overview

Intelligence Testing and Minority Students offers the reader a fresh opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing. Richard R. Valencia and Lisa A. Suzuki discuss the strengths and limitations of IQ testing relative to the factors which may contribute to biased results. They review the history of the adaptation and adoption of intelligence testing; evaluate the heredity-environment debate; discuss the specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761912304
• ISBN13: 9780761912309
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.2"