User:Bnmorrow/sandbox

I checked the article today, Brittany, and your paragraphs are still not there. I don't understand why you were unable to publish them, although I am giving you credit per the syllabus.Dperkins16 (talk) 16:59, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Your plans look good, Brittany. Let me know if you have questions.Dperkins16 (talk) 18:32, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

What I Will Create or Change
WORK PLAN

I intend to update a Wikipedia article concerning the topic of my application paper, "Intelligence Testing on Immigrants." I plan to make changes to the article titled "Race and intelligence." The web link for this page is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Test_bias

I plan to change the article by adding a paragraph to the "Test Bias" section. Here I want to elaborate on cultural test biases that affected the intelligence tests used on immigrants in the early 1900's. I will add valuable information about cultural test biases by focusing on: where they came from, who they affected, and why they invalidated test results.

Bnmorrow (talk) 18:31, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Article Contribution
Test bias

A number of studies have reached the conclusion that IQ tests may be biased against certain groups.[66][67][68][69] The validity and reliability of IQ scores obtained from outside the United States and Europe have been questioned, in part because of the inherent difficulty of comparing IQ scores between cultures.[70][71] Several researchers have argued that cultural differences limit the appropriateness of standard IQ tests in non-industrialized communities.[72][73] In the mid-1970s, for example, the Soviet psychologist Alexander Luria concluded that it was impossible to devise an IQ test to assess peasant communities in Russia because taxonomy was alien to their way of reasoning.[74]

Another critic writes, “tests are artifacts constructed within a specific culture, and they cannot be expected to transfer to different cultures from the one in which they were constructed.” Even if intelligence seems universal, if researchers are defining test measures on cultural dimensions it cannot be given to people from other countries because the content is not relevant and generalizable to other cultures.

Other researchers argue that IQ tests are biased due to the fact that they were not originally designed to test intelligence. Psychologist Alfred Binet, created the first form of the test by developing a method that differentiated children’s mental abilities. He never intended for it to be a test to classify someone’s intelligence, but instead, used it to see which children needed more help in their schooling than others. He recognized the limitations of the test to fully understand and grasp a person’s cognition and intellect. Binet even cautioned against using the test in such a way as to define someone’s ability to learn. He felt it was merely a tool to determine who needed more help, not an inability to learn.

A 1996 report by the American Psychological Association states that controlled studies show that differences in mean IQ scores were not substantially due to bias in the content or administration of the IQ tests. Furthermore, the tests are equally valid predictors of future achievement for black and white Americans.[51] This view is reinforced by Nicholas Mackintosh in his 1998 book IQ and Human Intelligence,[75] and by a 1999 literature review by Brown, Reynolds & Whitaker (1999).[76]

Bnmorrow (talk) 21:06, 29 April 2014 (UTC)