Assessing Intelligence - Applying a Bio-Cultural Model

In response to shortcomings inherent in mainstream intelligence assessment, the authors of this volume propose a `bio-cultural' model as an alternative approach to current models. They offer a comprehensive and informed understanding of biological and cultural influences on intellectual behaviour, and explore the implications of the bio-cultural model for practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

List of contents

PART ONE: INTELLIGENCE: MAJOR ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Intellectual Assessment in a Multicultural Society
Conceptions of Human Intelligence and Implications for Its Assessment
Culture and Cognition
Toward a Biocultural Perspective of Intellectual Development
PART TWO: INTELLECTUAL ASSESSMENT AND CULTURE: A NEW PARADIGM
The Evolution of the Biocultural Assessment System
The Biocultural Assessment System
A Critical Review of Standardized Tests and Approaches of Intelligence Using the Biocultural Assessment Model
Report Writing Utilizing the Four-Tier Biocultural Assessment System
Evaluation of the Biocultural Assessment System
PART THREE: TRAINING AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE BIOCULTURAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Training of Mental Health Workers, Educators and Parents To Enhance the Intellectual Functioning of Children
Implications for Future Research and Policy

Summary

A supplemental text that poses an alternative approach to the models currently in use for assessing intelligence.

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Armour-Thomas, Armour-Thomas Eleanor, Sharon-Ann Gopaul-Mcnicol, Gopaul-McNicol Sharon-Ann
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.1998
• EAN: 9780761905219
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0521-9
• No. of pages: 263
• Weight: 370 g
• Series: Racial and Ethnic Minority Psy; Racial Ethnic Minority Psychology; RACIAL ETHNIC MINORITY PSYCHOLOGY; Racial Ethnic Minority Psychol
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