Richardson Howard Andrew Knox

Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-51211-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Tables
Foreword by Robert J. Sternberg
Preface
Chronology
Key People in the Text
Introduction
Part I: Before Ellis Island
1. Early Years
2. Army Days
Part II: The Context
3. Immigration, Intelligence, and the Public Health Service
4. The Measurement of Intelligence
5. At Ellis Island
Part III: Developing the Ellis Island Tests
6. The Ellis Island Tests
7. Popularizing the Work at Ellis Island
8. Practical Issues in Intelligence Testing
9. After Ellis Island
Part IV: The Legacy
10. Developing Performance Scales
11. Borrowing the Ellis Island Tests
12. What Do Performance Tests Measure?
13. An Appraisal
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John T. E. Richardson is the professor of student learning and assessment at The Open University in the United Kingdom and a former professor of psychology and head of the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University. He is an academician of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, a fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education. He is an associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Psychology Teaching Review, and among his fifteen coauthored and coedited books are Gender Differences in Human Cognition, Imagery: Current Developments, The Future of Higher Education, Intelligent Systems in a Human Context, and Mental Imagery and Human Memory.