{"product_id":"mental-tests-and-cultural-adaptation","title":"Mental tests and cultural adaptation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction \/ Crònbach, Lee J. -- Development of psychology and mental testing in Turkey \/ Tan, Hasan -- PART I: Testing in its social framework -- 1. Laying the groundwork for test application in less-developed countries \/ Arici, Hüsnü -- 2. Implications of testing for individual and society \/ Drenth, Pieter J. D. -- 3. Industrial application of tests developed for illiterate and semiliterate people \/ Blake, R. Hilton -- 4. Adaptability: its measurement and determinants \/ Biesheuvel, S. -- 5. Development, application and interpretation of tests for use in French-speaking black Africa and Madagascar \/ Dague, Pierre -- PART II: Crosscultural research strategy -- 6. Radical cultural relativism and the concept of intelligence \/ Berry, J. W. -- 7. A model for the analysis of cultural determinants of between-groups variation in measured intelligence \/ Sanday, Peggy R. -- 8. The necessity of a theory for applied crosscultural research \/ Eckensberger, Lutz H. -- PART III: Testing procedure -- 9. Some principles for adaptation of psychological tests \/ Ortar, Gina -- 10. Test construction and standardization in different cultural settings \/ Kohan, Nuria Cortada De -- 11. Why certain tasks from mental tests must be adapted whereas operational tasks need not \/ Semin, Refia -- 12. Procedure for group test administration in developing countries \/ Cho, Sam -- 13. Three handbooks on crosscultural testing \/ Cronbach, Lee J. \/ Drenth, Pieter J.D. -- 14. Attitude to multiple-choice tests in West Africa \/ Akeju, S.S.A. -- 15. Instructions as determinants of performance: the effect of information about the task \/ Gitmez, Ali S. -- 16. Effects of incentives on the test-taking behavior of Botswana primary-school children \/ Cook, Paul F. \/ Molomo, Matlapeng Ray -- PART IV: Testing devices -- 17. Psychological studies of Kalahari Bushmen \/ Reuning, H. -- 18. Assessing cognitive capacities of nonliterate New Guinea adults and children \/ Ord, I. G. -- 19. Tests of general cognitive ability for use with Maori and European children of New Zealand \/ George, Ross St. -- 20. Patterns of reasoning test responses in the South Pacific \/ Bennett, Mick -- 21. Remarks on testing in the Pacific \/ McElwain, D. W. -- 22. A children's intelligence test for Greece \/ Georgas, James G. \/ Georgas, Catherine -- 23. Application of the D 48 test in Turkey \/ Kagitçibaçi, Cicdem -- 24. Application of Progressive Matrices in Iraq \/ Abul-Hubb, Dhia -- 25. The Purdue motion-picture tests of visual perception \/ McDaniel, Ernest -- 26. A search for tests of practical intelligence \/ Rimland, Bernard -- 27. A culture-assimilation measure and its relationship to intellectual performance \/ Pauker, Jerome D. -- 28. Self-perceived abilities and on-the-job performance of culturally disadvantaged workers \/ Wickert, Frederic R. -- PART V: Educational intervention and educational influence -- 29. Cognitive assessment of the socioculturally deprived child and adolescent \/ Feuerstein, Reuven -- 30. Consequences of attending elementary school in a second language \/ Lambert, W.E. -- 31. Continuities in observational field methods and mental testing \/ Smith, Louis M. -- 32. The abilities and problems of immigrants in learning to drive busses \/ Belbin, Eunice \/ Belbin, R. Meredith -- 33. Divergence among school beginners caused by different cultural influences \/ Kyostio, O.K. -- 34. Adolescent changes in ability in relation to schooling \/ Thrane, Vidkunn Coucheron -- PART VI: Correlates and determinants of test performance -- 35. Intergenerational mobility as a function of social origin and mental test results \/ Levy-Leboyer, Claude -- 36. Cognitive development of children from selected ethnic, educational and language backgrounds in Malaysia \/ Harrold-Stroebe, M.S. -- 37. Age, socioeconomic status and classificatory behavior among Turkish children \/ Ataman, Isik \/ Epir, Shirley -- 38. Genetic and environmental influences on language abilities \/ Mittler, P. -- 39. A comparison of African and European students in simple auditory and visual tasks \/ Poortinga, Ype -- 40. Social-class differences in the performance o \/ Bakare, Christopher G. M -- 41. A normative study of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing test on a Turkish sample \/ Ucman, Perin -- 42. Long-range prediction of educability and its determinants in East Africa \/ Silvey, Jonathan -- PART VII: Factor-analytic studies -- 43. The factor structure of intelligence among teachers in the Congo \/ Claeys, W. -- 44. The organization of intellectual abilities of an African ethnic group in cultural transition \/ Grant, G.V. -- 45. The influence of maturation and education on the development of mental abilities \/ Fatouros, Mika -- PART VIII: Technical issues and proposals -- 46. Judging how well a test measures \/ Cronbach, Lee J. -- 47. Logic, language and method in construct identification across cultures \/ Irvine, S.H. \/ Sanders, J.T. -- 48. Evaluating environmental influences on test scores \/ Flier, Henk van der -- 49. Applicability of the Rasch model in two cultures \/ Mellenbergh, Gideon J. -- 50. Cultural influence on the development of Number and Flexibility-of-closure factors \/ Hürsch, L. -- Summary and commentary \/ Cronbach, Lee J. \/ Drenth, Pieter J.D. -- Roster of Conference Participants -- Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783111186139\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783111186139","offer_id":39272499183709,"sku":"9783111186139","price":159.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3a723c6d-20dc-462f-b3ea-238f67592894.jpg?v=1779511330","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/mental-tests-and-cultural-adaptation","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}