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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF COACHING ON NON‐VERBAL TEST MATERIAL WITH EUROPEAN, INDIAN AND AFRICAN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
LLOYD F.,
PIDGEON D. A.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1961.tb02926.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , coaching , test (biology) , developmental psychology , anthropology , sociology , paleontology , psychotherapist , biology
S ummary . In the endeavour to compare the performances of children from different ethnic groups on standardised tests, carefully chosen samples of European, Indian and African children in Natal were given non‐verbal tests. Half the children in each group were then coached for two short sessions on the type of material employed in the tests and all children were then re‐tested. The initial scores of the European children were greatly superior to both the Indian and Africans. However, the net coaching effect on the African children was twice that on the Europeans, while for the Indian children it was zero. Reasons for the differences between the ethnic groups are discussed and the conclusion drawn that the standardised test scores of children from different cultural backgrounds cannot be considered comparable, even after a period of familiarization.