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Implicit and incorrect assumptions concerning the assessment of the latino in the United States
Author(s) -
Cauce Ana Mari,
Jacobson Leonard I.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00912593
Subject(s) - health psychology , value (mathematics) , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , restructuring , face (sociological concept) , population , social psychology , public health , sociology , political science , social science , law , medicine , demography , statistics , nursing , mathematics
Most of the research on the assessment of the intelligence of Latinos in the United States has shown that they score significantly lower than Anglo-Americans on a variety of standard measures of intellectual functioning. Before taking such data at face value and drawing premature generalizations, a number of erroneous often implicitly made assumptions are reviewed in this paper. An evaluation of the evidence for each of the assumptions indicates that much of the data gathered about Latinos, as well as many of the instruments used to gather it, have grown out of a tradition frought with problems, both moral and methodoligical. Suggestions are given on ways to restructure assessment procedures so that data collected are more germane to the development of programming for the Latino population.