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Mental tests and cultural adaptation
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction
- Development of psychology and mental testing in Turkey
- PART I: Testing in its social framework
- 1. Laying the groundwork for test application in less-developed countries
- 2. Implications of testing for individual and society
- 3. Industrial application of tests developed for illiterate and semiliterate people
- 4. Adaptability: its measurement and determinants
- 5. Development, application and interpretation of tests for use in French-speaking black Africa and Madagascar
- PART II: Crosscultural research strategy
- 6. Radical cultural relativism and the concept of intelligence
- 7. A model for the analysis of cultural determinants of between-groups variation in measured intelligence
- 8. The necessity of a theory for applied crosscultural research
- PART III: Testing procedure
- 9. Some principles for adaptation of psychological tests
- 10. Test construction and standardization in different cultural settings
- 11. Why certain tasks from mental tests must be adapted whereas operational tasks need not
- 12. Procedure for group test administration in developing countries
- 13. Three handbooks on crosscultural testing
- 14. Attitude to multiple-choice tests in West Africa
- 15. Instructions as determinants of performance: the effect of information about the task
- 16. Effects of incentives on the test-taking behavior of Botswana primary-school children
- PART IV: Testing devices
- 17. Psychological studies of Kalahari Bushmen
- 18. Assessing cognitive capacities of nonliterate New Guinea adults and children
- 19. Tests of general cognitive ability for use with Maori and European children of New Zealand
- 20. Patterns of reasoning test responses in the South Pacific
- 21. Remarks on testing in the Pacific
- 22. A children's intelligence test for Greece
- 23. Application of the D 48 test in Turkey
- 24. Application of Progressive Matrices in Iraq
- 25. The Purdue motion-picture tests of visual perception
- 26. A search for tests of practical intelligence
- 27. A culture-assimilation measure and its relationship to intellectual performance
- 28. Self-perceived abilities and on-the-job performance of culturally disadvantaged workers
- PART V: Educational intervention and educational influence
- 29. Cognitive assessment of the socioculturally deprived child and adolescent
- 30. Consequences of attending elementary school in a second language
- 31. Continuities in observational field methods and mental testing
- 32. The abilities and problems of immigrants in learning to drive busses
- 33. Divergence among school beginners caused by different cultural influences
- 34. Adolescent changes in ability in relation to schooling
- PART VI: Correlates and determinants of test performance
- 35. Intergenerational mobility as a function of social origin and mental test results
- 36. Cognitive development of children from selected ethnic, educational and language backgrounds in Malaysia
- 37. Age, socioeconomic status and classificatory behavior among Turkish children
- 38. Genetic and environmental influences on language abilities
- 39. A comparison of African and European students in simple auditory and visual tasks
- 40. Social-class differences in the performance o
- 41. A normative study of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing test on a Turkish sample
- 42. Long-range prediction of educability and its determinants in East Africa
- PART VII: Factor-analytic studies
- 43. The factor structure of intelligence among teachers in the Congo
- 44. The organization of intellectual abilities of an African ethnic group in cultural transition
- 45. The influence of maturation and education on the development of mental abilities
- PART VIII: Technical issues and proposals
- 46. Judging how well a test measures
- 47. Logic, language and method in construct identification across cultures
- 48. Evaluating environmental influences on test scores
- 49. Applicability of the Rasch model in two cultures
- 50. Cultural influence on the development of Number and Flexibility-of-closure factors
- Summary and commentary
- Roster of Conference Participants
- Index