[Slides] presented at the Annual National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in New York in March 2008. This presentation explores the demographic information as well as how and where educational measurement professionals are in the field.

With an increase in diverse cultures comes a responsibility for educators to become aware of their ethnocentric attitudes that influence increasingly diverse classrooms. One place to unpack attitudes about diversity in the classroom is to encourage teachers in training to become aware of their own ethnocentrism. One way for teachers to become…

Reported the relationship of self image to race, social class, urbanicity and age as determined by asking six questions dealing with ability, appearance and interpersonal relations of 1800 young females from a nationally representative sample. (Author/SDH)

Examines limitations of the heritability concept and heritability analysis, and discusses a conventional application of heritability analysis, IQ scores as measurements of a phenotypic character, the heritability of IQ, and the relationship of IQ and race. (JR)

This report summarizes the highlights of the general and special sessions of the spring 1971 annual conference of the Ford Training and Placement Program. Funded by the Ford Foundation, this program is a coordinated effort by The University of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Education to develop better procedures for training professional staff…

Racial and sexual distinctions in social schemata of 328 second grade children were examined in this study. Photographs of Black and White male and female children were presented in three-picture sets, and subjects were asked to pair two of the pictures and separate the third. All groups paired photographs more often on race than on sex. (SE)

Nine questions are presented for student discussions relating to genetics, evolution, and racial characteristics. A brief introductory discussion of these topics are presented, as well. (BB)

Generally, the findings showed that blacks earn more if they have a wife and child. The effect of the marital position on earning was significantly lower for blacks than whites. No difference was found in the case of parental position. (AUTHOR/EDE)

A sample of education literature from four journals spanning ten years is reviewed to determine the extent to which race, social class, and gender tend to be treated as integrated issues. Little integration was found. The paper argues that attending only to one issue oversimplifies behavior analysis. (Author/JAZ)

A study of the effectiveness of ridge regression over ordinary least squares regression as applied to both cognitive and noncognitive admissions data is reported. Separate race equations and a general equation were used. The analysis used did not improve on existing regression analyses. (MSE)

More than half of all California youth ages 13 to 24 have a foreign-born parent. Because a large number of these immigrant parents have a limited education, lack of improvement in educational attainment from one generation to the next would have serious implications for the state economically as well as socially. Education is an important…

This study explored white students' level of racial/ethnic identity development and whether pre-college characteristics and patterns of participation in curricular and co-curricular activities influenced identity development. This research focused on white students who attended a predominately Hispanic community college. Racial/ethnic identity…

This report addresses issues that data users will face in using, interpreting, and presenting new data on race from the 2000 census, which allowed multiple racial responses. Changing how the census collects data on race is not new. Almost every census for the past 200 years has collected racial data differently than the previous census. New…

This curriculum unit on civil rights questions in the United States was developed as a history-social science project at San Jose State University. The unit is intended for high school students and needs one or two class periods to complete. It provides the teacher with a rationale, a framework, history-social science standards, student outcomes,…