Intelligence Testing and Minority Students: Foundations, Performance Factors, and Assessment Issues (RACIAL ETHNIC MINORITY PSYCHOLOGY)

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.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Valencia, Richard R.

Suzuki, Lisa A.

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

The Second Edition of the Handbook of Multicultural Counseling presents a completely reconceived work building on the strengths of the first, reflecting the developments that continue to expand the profession of multicultural counseling. Eighty-five scholars in the field offer their perspectives, providing breadth and depth, as well as new visions for the discipline. The Handbook is a critical resource for counselors, counseling students, and other mental health professionals who are seeking to improve their competence in treating a culturally diverse clientele.

Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Multicultural Counselling)

Ponterotto, Joseph G.

Casas, J. Manuel

Alexander, Charlene M.

Mental Health

The Second Edition of the Handbook of Multicultural Counseling presents a completely reconceived work building on the strengths of the first, reflecting the developments that continue to expand the profession of multicultural counseling. Eighty-five scholars in the field offer their perspectives, providing breadth and depth, as well as new visions for the discipline. The Handbook is a critical resource for counselors, counseling students, and other mental health professionals who are seeking to improve their competence in treating a culturally diverse clientele.

Handbook of Multicultural Counseling

Answers the need for more sensitive and appropriate assessment practices In recent years, controversies have intensified concerning the use of psychological and educational tests and measures with ethnic and racial population groups. This insightful handbook presents the most current research and methods in multicultural assessment, and offers in-depth analysis of the relevant and timely issues. Covers the broad spectrum of multicultural assessment issues with contributions from experts in the fields of psychometrics, assessment, and evaluation. Included is information on: <ul>
<li>the major instruments and procedures</li> <li>cognitive and educational assessment</li> <li>cross-cultural sensitivity and ethics</li> <li>emerging issues in field</li> </ul>
This resource will prove invaluable when selecting instruments and integrating general multicultural considerations in test use and interpretation.

Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational Applications

Meller, Paul J.

Jossey-Bass

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