Socioeconomic Status and Intelligence
Why Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12455255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Claude Croizet (0000-0002-4964-462X, a Université Blaise Pascal, de , Clermont-Ferrand, France, corresponding author), Marion Dutrévis (a Université Blaise Pascal, de , Clermont-Ferrand, France) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 91-107 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-5549 • E-ISSN: 1540-7608 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j134v08n03_05 |
| OpenAlex | W2016846687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
Students from low socioeconomic backgrounds perform worse on standardized tests than other students. Two experiments investigated whether the testing situation per se contributes to the relationship between social class and intellectual achievement. In study 1, students from low or high social class took a GRE-like test that was described either as diagnostic or not of intellectual ability. When described as a measure of intellectual ability, low socioeconomic status (SES) participants performed worse than high SES participants. However, when the identical test was presented as nondiagnostic of intellectual ability, low SES participants scored as high as their SES peers. Study 2 extended this finding to an IQ-like test, the Advanced Progressive Matrices Test. The implications of these results with regards to the meaning of the relationship between social class and test scores are discussed
Class (philosophy · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Intelligence quotient · Mathematics education · Meaning (existential · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Social class · Social science · Social status · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Standardized test · Test (biology · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Demography · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |