Race, Region, and Education
An Analysis of Black and White Scores on the 1917 Army Alpha Intelligence Test
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4050170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John L Rury (0000-0003-4794-719X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2295276 |
| OpenAlex | W2313168706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In 1917 the United States Army sponsored the most sweeping application of standardized testing then yet attempted. Using an instrument modeled after Lewis Terman's modified version of the Binet test (the well known Stanford-Binet test), the Army administered tests to some 1,750,000 men, most of them draftees, under the direction of a team of psychologists headed by Harvard University professor Robert M. Yerkes. From the standpoint of these psychologists, the Army testing program was seen as a grand opportunity to measure systematically the general of American men-and to identify critical points of variation in performance from one social group to another. These men were concerned to see whether their own theories of variability in intelligence would hold up in the face of such a massive application of a single series of tests.' As it turned out, they must have been satisfied. The group with the highest median scores was native whites, followed in descending order by immigrant whites and native (particularly Southern) blacks. While the average white mental age, as determined by
Alpha (finance) · Psychometrics · Race (biology) · Sociology · Test (biology) · White (mutation) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Gender Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2007 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |