Survey of the Literature Relating to the Effects of Cultural Background on Aptitude Test Scores

Lucas, Charles M.

doi:10.1002/j.2333-8504.1953.tb00891.x

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“…Warren in dictionary of psychology define aptitude as "a condition or set of characteristics regarded as symtomatic of an individual's ability to acquire with training some (usually specified knowledge, skill or set of responses), such as the ability to speak language, to produce mucic, etc". Based on those definitions, aptitude can be defined as "present characteristics that are symptomatic of future potentialities" [8]. Although these definitions have been defined a few decades ago, those definitions are still acceptable till now.…”

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An Analysis of Verbal Numerical Aptitude: An Untold Story of Students in West Sumatera

Afrida

Kardena

Medika

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st EAI Bukittinggi International Conference on Education, BICED 2019, 17-18 October, 201

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Gender is believed to be one of factors that influence verbal aptitude and numerical aptitude. However, nowadays there are findings which reveal and seem breaking this belief. This research was conducted to prove the concepts related to gender in relation to the verbal aptitude and also numerical aptitude. The data of the research were collected from 633 respondents who are male and female. The research was used non parametric test by using U-test which found Sig 2 tailed 0,846 on verbal aptitude and 0,081 on numerical aptitude. The results of this study is there is no significant difference among verbal aptitude and numerical aptitude on male and female. Furthermore, it is assumed that the concept related to the difference of verbal and numerical aptitude cannot be generalized and it could be appeared on certain culture only.

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“…Besides, there were also researches that found cultural factor as one of factors that influence verbal and numerical aptitudes. [8] [9]. However, those researches were conducted in different times and different places.…”

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An Analysis of Verbal Numerical Aptitude: An Untold Story of Students in West Sumatera

Afrida

Kardena

Medika

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st EAI Bukittinggi International Conference on Education, BICED 2019, 17-18 October, 201

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“…It is now generally accepted that black groups will score lower than white groups on a wide variety of ability and aptitude tests, as indicated by such fairly recent studies as those of Ash (1966), Dugan (1966), Krug (1966), Lopez (1966), Lucas (1953), and others. It is also widely accepted that the lower scores of black groups are the result of educational, social, and cultural deprivation rather than of innate or genetic influences.…”

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The prediction of performance for black and for white police patrolmen.

Baehr¹,

Saunders²,

Froemel³

et al. 1971

Professional Psychology

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This is a report on some considerations involved in validating an occupational test battery for a racially mixed group. The 75% white and 25% black sample showed clear-cut differences in performance on the predictor variables and ambiguous differences in performance on the criterion variables. Cross-validations demonstrated that poorest prediction coefficients (sometimes 0 or negative) resulted when predicting across the racial groups using the same prediction equation for members of both groups. Predictions improved for both groups when race-specific equations were used, the best predictions being obtained for the black group. Analysis of the beta weights of the most effective predictor variables pinpointed the attributes common to the more successful, as distinguished from the less successful, of the currently employed black and white patrolmen.

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“…It is not clear whether SOme -2-differences adumbrated here, specifically in the intelligence and temperament realms, are genetically based or not." Lucas (1953) surveyed the literature relating to the effects of cultural background on aptitude test scores. He pointed out that 11intelligence (and aptitude) is a psychological construct that has been inferred from observable operations; it does not have an independent existence • .…”

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