Intelligence Testing and Minority Students

Intelligence Testing and Minority Students
Author: Richard R. Valencia
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2000-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780761912316

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 performance factors which apply to IQ testing of those in minority ethnic groups. This practical book offers the practitioner a good sense of what can be done to make testing and education serve the needs of all students fairly and validly, whatever their background.

Left Back

Left Back
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2001-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743203267

In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1400
Release: 1923
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools
Author: Tony Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113478564X

The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

The Evolution of Deficit Thinking

The Evolution of Deficit Thinking
Author: Richard R. Valencia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136368361

Deficit thinking refers to the notion that students, particularly low income minority students, fail in school because they and their families experience deficiencies that obstruct the leaning process (e.g. limited intelligence, lack of motivation, inadequate home socialization). Tracing the evolution of deficit thinking, the authors debunk the pseudo-science and offer more plausible explanations of why students fail.