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Hauser, Robert M.; Huang, Min-Hsiung – 1996
Until the 1970s, there were few signs of change in the historic difference of one standard deviation between average ability or achievement test scores of black and white students. From 1970 to the mid-to-late 1980s, there was a substantial convergence of the average achievement test scores of blacks and whites. From the mid-to-late 1980s to 1992,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Parks-Trusz, Sandra L.; Trusz, Andrew R. – Texas Tech Journal of Education, 1981
Models which describe assumptions concerning the distribution of intellectual capacity are: (1) the differential distribution model, encompassing theories that consider differences in intelligence genetic; (2) the normal distribution model; and (3) the evenly distributed model, focusing on the similarity of intellectual potentials within the human…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Competition, Curriculum Development
Ikeda, Kiyoshi; And Others – 1971
The purpose of this paper is to present some preliminary findings on the effects of racial status, socioeconomic status (SES), and measured ability (MA) upon academic performance of students in a liberal arts college. Preliminary analyses of academic performance (cumulative grade point averages and semester-by-semester grade point averages) among…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students

Elliott, Rogers – Intelligence, 1988
Relationship between ability tests and race and issues of famous lawsuits concerning possible bias in intelligence tests are summarized. Reasons for the origins of ethnic and racial differences in general intellectual ability are considered. Prospects for the reduction of group differences and conflicts are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Black Students, Conflict
Derlega, Valerian J.; And Others – 1980
Using methods employed by Chaikin et al (1974) and Chaikin and Derlega (1978) to determine when tutors are susceptible to expectancy effects and whether expectancies lead to discrimination against low ability students, black undergraduates (N=76) taught a lesson on fire safety at home to a 10-year-old boy. Two black male and two white male…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Wilson, Alan B. – 1970
Three themes have dominated the sociology of education: the sub-cultural thesis, the socio-cultural advantage thesis, and the biogenetic thesis. With regards to the last, one should try to account for differences in the behavior of identifiable social groups by looking for social causes. The relationship between the strength of the bonds attaching…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Biological Influences, Black Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1970
In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Henry E. Garrett, Chairman, Psychology Department (Emeritus), Columbia University; Dr. Arthur R. Jensen, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Frank C. J. McGurk, Professor of Psychology, University of Montevallo; Dr. R. Travis Osborne,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Black Students
Abrahamse, Allan F.; And Others – 1988
Analyzing data from the High School and Beyond survey on the behavior of 13,000 high school sophomore women over a two-year period, this document reveals the following facts about single motherhood: (1) young women with different background profiles exhibit markedly different rates of single parenthood; (2) because teenage women who become single…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Blacks, Early Parenthood
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
Robert L. Thorndike was awarded the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Measurement Award at the 1972 ETS Invitational Conference. In "Heredity, Environment, and Class or Ethnic Differences," J. McV. Hunt addressed several fundamental questions pertaining to the hereditary and environmental influences of the observed social class and ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Awards, Biological Influences