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The influence of examiners' ethnic attributes on intelligence test scores
Author(s) -
Mishra Shitala P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198001)17:1<117::aid-pits2310170122>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - psychology , ethnic group , generalizability theory , test (biology) , raven's progressive matrices , mexican americans , intelligence quotient , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , paleontology , sociology , anthropology , biology
The study investigated the effect of examiners' ethnicity on the intelligence test performance of Anglo and Mexican‐American subjects. Two verbal subtests of the WISC and the Raven Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal intelligence test, were administered by two Anglo and two Mexican‐American examiners. All subjects ( N =96) were given half the items of each test by an Anglo and half by a Mexican‐American examiner. On two of the three tests, the subjects' performance was unaffected by examiner's ethnic attributes. On the WISC Vocabulary, however, Mexican‐American subjects scored significantly higher when the test was administered by Mexican‐American examiners. The generalizability of these results and their implications for learning in schools are discussed.