Intelligence Policy
Its Impact on College Admissions and Other Social Policies
Published on 17. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 255 pages
978-1-4613-5758-2 (ISBN)
Description
The author examines the numerous facets of 'implicit intelligence policies'those unspoken directives that often profoundly influence social and educational policies-and their impact on policies regarding measured and actual mental ability.
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` If anyone is to lead us out of the mire of false premises and hidden agendas about how we gauge each other, it's likely to be Angela Brown-Miller. 'from the Foreword by Kenneth S. Norris, University of California at Santa Cruz
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 255 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-5758-2 (9781461357582)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-1865-5
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01/1995
1st Edition
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
1. The Bell Tolls.- Specific Objectives.- Definitions and Structure.- I. The Demand for and Assessment of Mental Ability.- 2. The Supply of and Demand for Intelligence.- 3. The Juxtaposition of Individual and Institutional Assessment.- II. Mapping Social Policy Against a Theoretical Backdrop.- 4. Mapping Admissions and Other Social Policy against a Philosophical Backdrop.- 5. Academic Merit versus Fair Representation: A Case Study of the Undergraduate Admissions Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.- 6. Intelligence versus Higher Education as a Determinant of Worldly Success: The Sociopolitical Perspective.- 7. Academic Aptitude versus Achievement: Scientific Interpretations of Intelligence.- 8. Rationalist versus Empiricist Views: The Philosophical Backdrop on the Learnability of Intelligence.- 9. The Illusory Faces of Implicit Intelligence Policy.- III. The Impact of Implicit Intelligence Policy on Explicit Policy.- 10. The Potential Value of Impact Analysis on Intelligence Policy.- 11. The Impact of Implicit Intelligence Policy on Explicit University Admissions Policy.- 12. Recommendations and Conclusions: Toward a Coherent and Explicit Intelligence Policy.- 13. From Here to a Coherent and Explicit Intelligence Policy.- Appendixes.- A. Relevant Models of Impact Analysis.- B. Adaptation of Impact Analysis to Intelligence Policy Analysis.- C. Relevant Documents.- Notes.- About the Author.