Dr.
Oliver Edwards
Assistant Professor
Child, Family, and Community Sciences
University
of Central Florida
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Racial/Ethnic
Groups and Mean Differences in UQ:
Implications for Special Education Placements
The use of intellectual and other forms of psychological and mental tests with
students who differ culturally, linguistically, or racially is subject to substantial
controversy. Professionals responsible for the assessments of culturally different
children frequently are uncertain which test instruments provide the most valid,
relevant and equitable results. This study seeks to acquire standardization data
for four intelligence tests from researchers and intelligence test publishers.
The data will be analyzed to determine the mean score differences between Caucasian
Americans and African Americans. Based on the observed differences, analyses
will be made regarding what proportion of the African American school-age population
may be impacted by mean IQ differences.
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