Culture and Children's Intelligence: Cross-Cultural Analysis of the WISC-III

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Author(s): Lawrence G. Weiss
Edition: 1
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 336

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 15
Foreword......Page 19
Preface......Page 25
1. The Wechsler Scales for Assessing Children’s Intelligence: Past to Present......Page 35
2. Cross-Cultural Psychology, Intelligence, and Cognitive Processes......Page 55
3. The WISC-III in the United States......Page 73
4. Canada......Page 93
5. United Kingdom......Page 109
6. France and French-Speaking Bel......Page 121
7. The Netherlands and Flemish-Speaking Belgium......Page 141
8. Germany......Page 153
9. Austria and Switzerland......Page 169
10. Sweden......Page 181
11. Lithuania......Page 197
12. Slovenia......Page 213
13 .Greece......Page 231
14 .Japan......Page 247
15. South Korea......Page 259
16. Taiwan......Page 273
17. Principles of Adaptation of Intelligence Tests to Other Cultures......Page 287
18. Methodology of Combining the WISC-III Data Sets......Page 297
19. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the WISC-III......Page 309
Appendix......Page 345
Author Index......Page 353
Subject Index......Page 359