Assessing intellectual performance of culturally different, Inuit children with the WISC--R.
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
- Vol. 18 (3) , 270-277
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0079994
Abstract
This paper examines problems in the assessment of intelligence using standardized intelligence tests with culturally different children, for a sample of Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) children whose WISC-R scores, using the original WISC-R norms, would fall below a scaled score of 70.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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