Ethnic & Minority Studies - United States, Educational Testing & Measurement
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Synopsis
The Second Edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised with an additional chapter providing a powerful rebuttal to The Bell Curve. Ronald J Samuda presents a comprehensive analysis of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American minorities. He demonstrates that testing continues to be the primary method for injecting pseudoscientific arguments which bolster discrimination, prejudice and social injustice.Editorials
Booknews
Revised some quarter-century after its first publication, this volume presents a gestalt of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences, and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American minorities, delineating the ways in which psychological testing can and does impede the parity of American minorities. Includes new research and offers a succinct rebuttal to Herrnstein and Murray's (1994). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
March 6, 1998
Publisher
Sage Publications, Inc
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780761912149