About 20% of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English at home. Most of them consider English to be their second language. Some people have such limited English proficiency, that it would be inaccurate to even consider English as their second language. But here’s a logical question: what if these people were to…
Clients with limited English proficiency
Assessment of intelligence or cognitive abilities has long been a controversial issue due to the unclear definition of intelligence, the innate bias of standardized assessment tests, and the relationship between the scores on intelligence and achievement tests. Apart from those general problems another issue with intelligence assessment represents the assessment of children from ethnic…
Intelligence assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse children
Our first video to meditate on our profession
A little meditation on our problematic
There’s a major question that has stumped psychologists for quite a long time: « How do you measure or assess intelligence in an unbiased and accurate manner? » Is it even possible? One of those psychologists is Dr. Gary A. Plank who became particularly interested in American Indian children/adolescents and the methods of intelligence testing they had…
The Cross Battery Approach In The Assessment Of American Indian Children
It’s always the patterns that grasp our attention the most. Whenever something happens too frequently, in an unexplained manner, that’s when we begin to question it. In 1968, Lloyd Dunn was among the first to realize that there was a disproportionate number of minority students in special education classrooms. A couple of years later, Evelyn…
Overrepresentation of minority students in special education
For decades, psychologists have been concerned with IQ measurement. It’s always been a method of assessing a child’s intelligence and a criterion for their educational placement. However, as important as IQ measurements are, very little attention has been given to the types of IQ measures. Generally speaking, there are two types of IQ measures: verbal…
Child nonverbal IQ measures
