Intellectual Abilities of Immigrant Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9614795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J McFIE (Guy's Hospital), Janet A Thompson (0000-0001-8889-4472, Guy's Hospital) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 348-351 |
| Publication date | 1970-11-01 |
| 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.2044-8279.1970.tb02143.x |
| OpenAlex | W2086190563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
S ummary . Test scores on the WISC and Schonell GWRT of 61 children of West Indian parents attending a child guidance clinic have been compared with results of a similar number of English controls. The scores were also compared of those West Indians who had arrived in the UK before and after the age of 5 years. Significant differences were found on vocabulary and on four of the five ‘performance’ subtests, and the early arrivals tended to do better than later arrivals on the subtests which had been done relatively badly by all immigrant children. It is concluded: ( a ) that teaching with constructional and geometrical material is at least as important for immigrant children as is language teaching; and ( b ) that intelligence testing of these children can lead to serious misclassification unless cultural factors are taken into account
Cognition · Developmental psychology · Geography · Immigration · Intelligence quotient · Linguistics · Psychiatry · Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales · Test (biology) · Vocabulary · Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children · Language Development and Disorders · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 1992 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |