10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULTURE-FREE TEST»
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Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology
Irving B. Weiner, Donald K. Freedheim, John R. Graham. immigrants. In general,
immigration policies were affected by analyses of the intelligence of immigrants
from varying countries and regions of the world. Average IQs were computed
from ...
Irving B. Weiner, Donald K. Freedheim, John R. Graham, 2003
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The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Writing Scientific ...
goal, (a) because the very act of taking a test is culture-bound and (b) because
we have no culture-free baseline against which to assess the success of a culture
-free test. In other words, we have no way of knowing what culture-free means. a.
Robert J. Sternberg, Karin Sternberg, 2010
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Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action: Its ...
The standard tribal reaction of sociologists has been to deny the possibility of a
culture-free test. ... as the physician removes the infant from the mother's womb, it
-is unlikely that anything approximating a culture-free test will be developed.
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Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing
At the very minimum, we would want a culture-free test if real life outcomes
depended upon test performance. However, what kind of test is a West African
Binet likely to dream up that we would consider culture-free? It would not involve
a set of ...
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PSYCHOLOGY for B.Sc. Nursing
Many intelligent tests show a bias to the culture in which they are developed. The
item of the test developed in England may not represent the cultural perspectives
of Asia and Africa. Culture-free test are intended to use people of any culture.
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Psychophysiology: Human Behavior and Physiological Response
EEG and Intelligence (The Search for a Culture-Free Test) The Binet-Simon
intelligence scale appeared in 1905 as an instrument to classify mentally
retarded children for the purpose of educating them in the school system of Paris.
This test ...
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Discovery Series: Introduction to Lifespan
The first occurs at testtakersfrom certain cultural backgrounds. about the age of 6;
it coincides with entry into school and also with the shift from culture-free test A
test from preoperational to concrete-operational thought. School may help ...
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Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action
A number of efforts have been made to develop tests that do not give undue
advantage to particular cultural groups; these are known as culture-free tests.
Raymond Cattell (1940) made some of the earliest efforts to produce a culture-
free test.
Angela M. O'Donnell, Johnmarshall Reeve, Jeffrey K. Smith, 2011
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PSYCHOLOGY: THE STUDY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
The earlier form of Cattell's Test (IPAT test) was called culture free test. But,
Cattell soon realized that the test in fact, is not free from social fabrics. So, on
subsequent modifications and revisions, he termed it as culture fair test, i.e. the
test can ...
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PSYCHOLOGY FOR SOCIAL WORKERS: Black Perspectives on Human ...
Psychologists have attempted to develop a 'culture free' test, which would
represent 'an attempt at stripping the individual of his cultural veneer in order to
reveal and expose his true and inherent abilities' (Samuda, 1975: 133). However,
after ...
