Richard R Valencia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 119712 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard R Valencia |
| PRENOMES | Richard R |
| SOBRENOME | Valencia |
| ASSINATURA | VALENCIA R R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 189 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Chicano Students and the Courts
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this community…
The Evolution of Deficit Thinking
Early Racist Discourses
This book has attempted to present some understanding of the evolution of deficit thinking in educational thought and practice, and by necessity, some sense of the protean nature of the wider American social thought on deficit thinking, such as attitudes towards and beliefs about the behavior of the poor. The contributors have provided, in a collective manner, an analysis of deficit thinking spanning a time frame from the early 1600s to the prese…
Activist Scholarship in Action
Primarily because of underutilized schools (caused by declining enrollments) and the need to address budgetary deficits brought on by dramatic reductions in average daily attendance, many public school districts, in decades past and the present, have been forced to close numerous schools across the nation. The school boards of these economically troubled districts have resorted to consolidation to help alleviate their financial woes. In highly se…
White But Not Equal
Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking
"Mexican Americans Don't Value Education!" On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking
Notwithstanding evidence to the contrary, a major myth lingers that Mexican Americans, particularly parents of low-socioeconomic status background, do not value education. As a consequence, the myth asserts, Mexican American children experience poor academic achievement. We examine this myth in 3 ways. First, we suggest that the basis for the myth lies in the pseudoscientific notion of "deficit thinking," a mind-set molded by the fusion of ideolo…
The Taas Case
The authors organize this article around five areas of discussion: First is a recapitulation of the major issues germane to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills case. Next, the authors discuss the second wave of standards-based school reform in Texas, embodied in Senate Bill 4, pending legislation that would eliminate social promotion and institutionalize retention at several promotional gates for students who fail the state-mandated achieveme…
Guest Editors’ Introduction
An Overview of Conflicting Opinions in the Taas Case
This article provides an introduction to a number of issues and resultant conflicting opinions, held by plaintiffs and defendants, that characterized the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) case. The authors discuss eight different issues and the conflicting opinions that accompany them. These issues are concerned with the (a) explanation of why some minority students fail TAAS, (b) history of racial/ethnic minority discrimination in Texas…
Inequalities and the Schooling of Minority Students in Texas
In the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills case, the State argued that the differences in current schooling conditions and outcomes experienced by Whites and African American/Mexican American students are not due to historical discrimination, and such history is irrelevant to the litigation in GI Forum et al. vs. Texas Education Agency et al .By contrast, this article asserts that the contemporary widespread school failure of many African America…
From the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Hopwood
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an end to the Mexican American War of 1846–1848, marked its sesquicentennial on February 2, 1998. The signing of the Treaty and the U.S. annexation, by conquest, of the current Southwest signaled the beginning of decades of persistent, pervasive prejudice and discrimination against people of Mexican origin who reside in the United States. In this article, Guadalupe San Miguel and Richard Valencia pro…
Race-ethnicity and measured intelligence
Race–ethnicity and measured intelligence
In this article, issues pertaining to racial–ethnic differences in intelligence are addressed with regard to group-discrepancy misconceptions, profiles of abilities, historical context, factors associated with racial–ethnic differences, educational implications, and alternative methods of assessment
English and Spanish Versions of a Memory Test
This article offers a methodological strategy to examine cross-language equivalence for tests measuring short-term memory (STM). The test used is the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (English version, RAVLT-E) and a Spanish translation (RAVLT-S). Two units of analysis to examine comparability were used: "word-length" (as measured by syllable count) and "spoken duration." The participants were bilingual, Mexican American, male, college students. …
Educational Policy and the Growing Latino Student Population
"At-Risk" Chicano Students
The at-risk student has attracted much attention in American schools during the last decade. In 1986, the Texas legislature approvedHouse Bill 1010 that includedaprovision specifying criteria that schools would use to identify students as at-risk of dropping out of school, and thus a category was created. This article attempts tofill a gap in research on at-risk students that often emphasizes adult perspectives on such students, without exploring…
Educational Policy and the Growing Latino Student Population
In this article, the authors contend that school reform proposals in the 1980s and 1990s have ignored the changing racial and ethnic complexion of our nation. An analysis is provided of the government's school reform responses to the rapidly growing Latino student sector. The authorsfirst provide a discussion and critique offive major assumptions of 'first wave" reform. For example, one of the assumptions is that students are homogeneous. In this…
Latino Population Growth, Demographic Characteristics, and Educational Stagnation
This article is an introduction to the special issue of the Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences on Latino demographic trends and educational concerns. It provides a broad overview of Latino population trends in light of 1990 Census and other recent data. One focus in this article will be on the phenomenal increase of Latinos. Population countsfrom the 1990 Census indicate that the Latino population grew many times faster in the 1980s than…
Anglo-Saxon Ideologies in the 1920s-1930s
This study contends that a great deal of the current school segregation of Chicano students in public elementary and secondary schools in California has its origins in racial ideologies of Anglo-Saxon superiority and their subsequent impact on government policies. Using an ethnohistory case study approach (Santa Paula, California), the study sheds light on the Anglo domination and control thesis. A historical review of the ideologies of Anglo-Sax…
The McCarthy Scales and Hispanic Children
Currently, there are over a dozen investigations of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities that have examined the psychometric properties of this cognitive test with Hispanic children. The purposes of this article are to review this knowledge base and to draw conclusions of the usefulness of the McCarthy as an assessment of intelligence for Puerto Rican and Mexican American children. The investigations reviewed include a wide range of McCart…
Concurrent Validity of the WPPSI with Mexican-American Preschool Children
The concurrent validity of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) was investigated in a sample of 39 Mexican-American preschool children from low socioeconomic status background. The measure against which concurrent validity was assessed was the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA). The correlations of each of the three WPPSI IQ scores with each of the five MSCA Scale scores that were typically in the .60s and …
Concurrent Validity of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children in a Sample of Mexican-American Children
Concurrent validity of the newly developed individually administered intelligence/achievement instrument, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), was investigated with 42 English-speaking Mexican-American Head Start children. The criterion test was the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI). Correlation coefficients between the five K-ABC Global Scale Standard scores and the three WPPSI IQ Scale scores were foun…
The school closure issue and the Chicano community
Concurrent Validity and Reliability of the Kaufman Version of the McCarthy Scales Short Form for a Sample of Mexican-American Children
Largely because of Public Law (PL) 94-142, there has been a recent spate of interest in the early detection of children who might have learning problems. The major focus of such research has been to develop abbreviated tests (short forms) from well known clinical tests of intelligence. The concurrent validity and reliability of Kaufman's short-form version of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) was examined for a sample of 342 Mexi…
"Mexican Americans Don't Value Education!" On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking
Notwithstanding evidence to the contrary, a major myth lingers that Mexican Americans, particularly parents of low-socioeconomic status background, do not value education. As a consequence, the myth asserts, Mexican American children experience poor academic achievement. We examine this myth in 3 ways. First, we suggest that the basis for the myth lies in the pseudoscientific notion of "deficit thinking," a mind-set molded by the fusion of ideolo…
Latino Population Growth, Demographic Characteristics, and Educational Stagnation
This article is an introduction to the special issue of the Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences on Latino demographic trends and educational concerns. It provides a broad overview of Latino population trends in light of 1990 Census and other recent data. One focus in this article will be on the phenomenal increase of Latinos. Population countsfrom the 1990 Census indicate that the Latino population grew many times faster in the 1980s than…
Inequalities and the Schooling of Minority Students in Texas
In the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills case, the State argued that the differences in current schooling conditions and outcomes experienced by Whites and African American/Mexican American students are not due to historical discrimination, and such history is irrelevant to the litigation in GI Forum et al. vs. Texas Education Agency et al .By contrast, this article asserts that the contemporary widespread school failure of many African America…
Anglo-Saxon Ideologies in the 1920s-1930s
This study contends that a great deal of the current school segregation of Chicano students in public elementary and secondary schools in California has its origins in racial ideologies of Anglo-Saxon superiority and their subsequent impact on government policies. Using an ethnohistory case study approach (Santa Paula, California), the study sheds light on the Anglo domination and control thesis. A historical review of the ideologies of Anglo-Sax…
Race–ethnicity and measured intelligence
In this article, issues pertaining to racial–ethnic differences in intelligence are addressed with regard to group-discrepancy misconceptions, profiles of abilities, historical context, factors associated with racial–ethnic differences, educational implications, and alternative methods of assessment
Educational Policy and the Growing Latino Student Population
In this article, the authors contend that school reform proposals in the 1980s and 1990s have ignored the changing racial and ethnic complexion of our nation. An analysis is provided of the government's school reform responses to the rapidly growing Latino student sector. The authorsfirst provide a discussion and critique offive major assumptions of 'first wave" reform. For example, one of the assumptions is that students are homogeneous. In this…
The school closure issue and the Chicano community
An Overview of Conflicting Opinions in the Taas Case
This article provides an introduction to a number of issues and resultant conflicting opinions, held by plaintiffs and defendants, that characterized the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) case. The authors discuss eight different issues and the conflicting opinions that accompany them. These issues are concerned with the (a) explanation of why some minority students fail TAAS, (b) history of racial/ethnic minority discrimination in Texas…
The school closure issue and the Chicano community
"At-Risk" Chicano Students
The at-risk student has attracted much attention in American schools during the last decade. In 1986, the Texas legislature approvedHouse Bill 1010 that includedaprovision specifying criteria that schools would use to identify students as at-risk of dropping out of school, and thus a category was created. This article attempts tofill a gap in research on at-risk students that often emphasizes adult perspectives on such students, without exploring…
Activist Scholarship in Action
Primarily because of underutilized schools (caused by declining enrollments) and the need to address budgetary deficits brought on by dramatic reductions in average daily attendance, many public school districts, in decades past and the present, have been forced to close numerous schools across the nation. The school boards of these economically troubled districts have resorted to consolidation to help alleviate their financial woes. In highly se…
The school closure issue and the Chicano community
Predicting Academic Achievement of Mexican American Children
Guided by Public Law 94-142 in which it is mandated that assessment instruments be validated for specific use on exceptional populations, the intent of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in predicting school achievement (as measured by the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills) for 31 English-speaking, second-grade Mexican American children. It was found that the validity coefficients b…
Concurrent Validity and Reliability of the Kaufman Version of the McCarthy Scales Short Form for a Sample of Mexican-American Children
Largely because of Public Law (PL) 94-142, there has been a recent spate of interest in the early detection of children who might have learning problems. The major focus of such research has been to develop abbreviated tests (short forms) from well known clinical tests of intelligence. The concurrent validity and reliability of Kaufman's short-form version of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) was examined for a sample of 342 Mexi…
Concurrent Validity of the WPPSI with Mexican-American Preschool Children
The concurrent validity of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) was investigated in a sample of 39 Mexican-American preschool children from low socioeconomic status background. The measure against which concurrent validity was assessed was the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA). The correlations of each of the three WPPSI IQ scores with each of the five MSCA Scale scores that were typically in the .60s and …
Concurrent Validity of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children in a Sample of Mexican-American Children
Concurrent validity of the newly developed individually administered intelligence/achievement instrument, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), was investigated with 42 English-speaking Mexican-American Head Start children. The criterion test was the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI). Correlation coefficients between the five K-ABC Global Scale Standard scores and the three WPPSI IQ Scale scores were foun…
The school closure issue and the Chicano community
The McCarthy Scales and Hispanic Children
Currently, there are over a dozen investigations of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities that have examined the psychometric properties of this cognitive test with Hispanic children. The purposes of this article are to review this knowledge base and to draw conclusions of the usefulness of the McCarthy as an assessment of intelligence for Puerto Rican and Mexican American children. The investigations reviewed include a wide range of McCart…
Anglo-Saxon Ideologies in the 1920s-1930s
This study contends that a great deal of the current school segregation of Chicano students in public elementary and secondary schools in California has its origins in racial ideologies of Anglo-Saxon superiority and their subsequent impact on government policies. Using an ethnohistory case study approach (Santa Paula, California), the study sheds light on the Anglo domination and control thesis. A historical review of the ideologies of Anglo-Sax…
Educational Policy and the Growing Latino Student Population
In this article, the authors contend that school reform proposals in the 1980s and 1990s have ignored the changing racial and ethnic complexion of our nation. An analysis is provided of the government's school reform responses to the rapidly growing Latino student sector. The authorsfirst provide a discussion and critique offive major assumptions of 'first wave" reform. For example, one of the assumptions is that students are homogeneous. In this…
Latino Population Growth, Demographic Characteristics, and Educational Stagnation
This article is an introduction to the special issue of the Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences on Latino demographic trends and educational concerns. It provides a broad overview of Latino population trends in light of 1990 Census and other recent data. One focus in this article will be on the phenomenal increase of Latinos. Population countsfrom the 1990 Census indicate that the Latino population grew many times faster in the 1980s than…
"At-Risk" Chicano Students
The at-risk student has attracted much attention in American schools during the last decade. In 1986, the Texas legislature approvedHouse Bill 1010 that includedaprovision specifying criteria that schools would use to identify students as at-risk of dropping out of school, and thus a category was created. This article attempts tofill a gap in research on at-risk students that often emphasizes adult perspectives on such students, without exploring…
Educational Policy and the Growing Latino Student Population
Race-ethnicity and measured intelligence
Race–ethnicity and measured intelligence
In this article, issues pertaining to racial–ethnic differences in intelligence are addressed with regard to group-discrepancy misconceptions, profiles of abilities, historical context, factors associated with racial–ethnic differences, educational implications, and alternative methods of assessment
English and Spanish Versions of a Memory Test
This article offers a methodological strategy to examine cross-language equivalence for tests measuring short-term memory (STM). The test used is the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (English version, RAVLT-E) and a Spanish translation (RAVLT-S). Two units of analysis to examine comparability were used: "word-length" (as measured by syllable count) and "spoken duration." The participants were bilingual, Mexican American, male, college students. …
From the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Hopwood
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an end to the Mexican American War of 1846–1848, marked its sesquicentennial on February 2, 1998. The signing of the Treaty and the U.S. annexation, by conquest, of the current Southwest signaled the beginning of decades of persistent, pervasive prejudice and discrimination against people of Mexican origin who reside in the United States. In this article, Guadalupe San Miguel and Richard Valencia pro…
The Taas Case
The authors organize this article around five areas of discussion: First is a recapitulation of the major issues germane to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills case. Next, the authors discuss the second wave of standards-based school reform in Texas, embodied in Senate Bill 4, pending legislation that would eliminate social promotion and institutionalize retention at several promotional gates for students who fail the state-mandated achieveme…
Guest Editors’ Introduction
An Overview of Conflicting Opinions in the Taas Case
This article provides an introduction to a number of issues and resultant conflicting opinions, held by plaintiffs and defendants, that characterized the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) case. The authors discuss eight different issues and the conflicting opinions that accompany them. These issues are concerned with the (a) explanation of why some minority students fail TAAS, (b) history of racial/ethnic minority discrimination in Texas…
Inequalities and the Schooling of Minority Students in Texas
In the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills case, the State argued that the differences in current schooling conditions and outcomes experienced by Whites and African American/Mexican American students are not due to historical discrimination, and such history is irrelevant to the litigation in GI Forum et al. vs. Texas Education Agency et al .By contrast, this article asserts that the contemporary widespread school failure of many African America…
"Mexican Americans Don't Value Education!" On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking
Notwithstanding evidence to the contrary, a major myth lingers that Mexican Americans, particularly parents of low-socioeconomic status background, do not value education. As a consequence, the myth asserts, Mexican American children experience poor academic achievement. We examine this myth in 3 ways. First, we suggest that the basis for the myth lies in the pseudoscientific notion of "deficit thinking," a mind-set molded by the fusion of ideolo…
Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking
White But Not Equal
The Evolution of Deficit Thinking
Early Racist Discourses
This book has attempted to present some understanding of the evolution of deficit thinking in educational thought and practice, and by necessity, some sense of the protean nature of the wider American social thought on deficit thinking, such as attitudes towards and beliefs about the behavior of the poor. The contributors have provided, in a collective manner, an analysis of deficit thinking spanning a time frame from the early 1600s to the prese…
Psychology (17 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Ethnic group (7 obras) · School Choice and Performance (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 obras) · Cognition (5 obras) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (5 obras)