Harry E. Gunn, Jaswinder Singh

Minority Report

How African Americans and Hispanics Can Increase Their Test Scores

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Here, Gunn and Singh take a good look at one of society's most perplexing problems-our cultural testing bias. They believe that test-taking is a skill like many other cognitive endeavors, and in this book provide guidance in teaching math, verbal reasoning, abstraction, and language skills to minority children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Education
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781578860777
• ISBN-10: 1578860776
• Artikelnr.: 14417843

Autorenporträt

By Harry E. Gunn and Jaswinder Singh

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4
Introduction Chapter 5 1. How Widely Are Tests Used in American Society?
Chapter 6 2. What Are Tests Used For? Chapter 7 3. How Tests Are Created
Chapter 8 4. Why Do African Americans and Hispanics Score Lower on Tests
than Their White Counterparts? Chapter 9 5. Reasons for Low Scores on
Specific Tests Chapter 10 6. Left- versus Right-Brained Based Learning and
Cultural Bias Chapter 11 7. Help from Parents and Teachers Chapter 12 8.
Help from Examiners Chapter 13 9. Tests Can Be Fun Chapter 14 10. Tests
That Show the Superiority of Minority Children Chapter 15 11. Psyching Up
and Battling the Various Tests: Specific Remedies Chapter 16 Epilogue
Chapter 17 Index Chapter 18 About the Authors