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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.
Heredity
Heredity
The debate concerning the relative contributions of “nature” and “nurture” to measured intelligence remains prominent today. The term nature sometimes is used interchangeably by scholars with the terms heredity, genetics, and biology. The term nurture sometimes is referred to in the literature as environment, socialization, and culture. Regarding the role of genetics, Block and Dworkin (1976) commented, “There is perhaps no issue in the history of science that presents such a complex mingling of conceptual, methodological, psychological, ethical, political, and sociological questions as the controversy over whether intelligence has a substantial genetic component” (p. xi). Furthermore, the question of whether genetics plays a significant role in explaining racial/ethnic group mean differences in intelligence has been a particularly explosive area of scholarly contention over the ...
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