The Reduction of Socioeconomic Bias in Intelligence Testing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5262640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R S Macarthur (University of Alberta), Warwick B Elley (University of Alberta) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-119 |
| Publication date | 1963-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0998 • E-ISSN: 2044-8279 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1963.tb00571.x |
| OpenAlex | W2085541357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This study was designed to investigate the extent of socioeconomic bias in selected intelligence tests, with a view to identifying and constructing instruments which might better estimate the intellectual potential of pupils from deprived cultural and educational backgrounds. For such pupils the conventional intelligence test is unsuitable as a predictor of later educational progress if adaptive treatment reduces the effects of their educational handicaps.Nine promising culture-reduced tests and subtests were administered to a representative Edmonton sample of 271 twelve and thirteen-year-old children, and the results analysed in relation to measures of socio-economic status, verbal intelligence, achievement and school marks. City-wide testing surveys conducted during the previous four years provided data on the same children, making longitudinal comparisons possible. The results supported the hypothesis that it is possible to measure a broad component of intellectual ability with significantly less cultural bias than is found in the conventional intelligence test. Raven's Progressive Matrices proved the most useful test in the battery since it showed high g loading, consistent and minimal relation with socioeconomic status, no evidence of cultural bias by items, and moderate correlations with school marks. The Cattell test of g and the Lorge-Thorndike Figure Analogies subtest showed similar promise, since they met most of the criteria of the study in shorter testing time
Cognition · Cultural bias · Developmental psychology · Intellectual ability · Intelligence quotient · Population · Raven's Progressive Matrices · Socioeconomic status · Test (biology) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Demography · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology
Intelligence, family size and socio-economic status
Differential calculation abilities in young children from middle- and low-income families
Prediction of Wais IQ for Psychiatric Patients Using the Ammons' FRPV and Raven's Progressive Matrices
From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability
Racial Stratification, Sex, and Mental Ability
Differential fertility and normal selection for IQ
The structure and correlates of attitudes to English among pupils of Asian origin
Ego‐Attitudes in Second Language Learning
Progress and Degeneration in the ‘IQ Debate’ (II)
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 2022 (56) |
| Highly cited | No |