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Umfang: 1 online resource : , 32 illus.; 11 tables

ISBN: 9780231512114

Inhalt: Howard Andrew Knox (1885-1949) served as assistant surgeon at Ellis Island during the 1910s, administering a range of verbal and nonverbal tests to determine the mental capacity of potential immigrants. An early proponent of nonverbal intelligence testing (largely through the use of formboards and picture puzzles), Knox developed an evaluative approach that today informs the techniques of practitioners and researchers. Whether adapted to measure intelligence and performance in children, military recruits, neurological and psychiatric patients, or the average job applicant, Knox's pioneering methods are part of contemporary psychological practice and deserve in-depth investigation.Completing the first biography of this unjustly overlooked figure, John T. E. Richardson, former president of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, takes stock of Knox's understanding of intelligence and his legacy beyond Ellis Island. Consulting published and unpublished sources, Richardson establishes a chronology of Knox's life, including details of his medical training and his time as a physician for the U.S. Army. He describes the conditions that gave rise to intelligence testing, including the public's concern that the United States was opening its doors to the mentally unfit. He then recounts the development of intelligence tests by Knox and his colleagues and the widely-discussed publication of their research. Their work presents a useful and extremely human portrait of psychological testing and its limits, particularly the predicament of the people examined at Ellis Island. Richardson concludes with the development o

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ILLUSTRATIONS -- , TABLES -- , FOREWORD -- , PREFACE -- , CHRONOLOGY -- , KEY PEOPLE IN THE TEXT -- , INTRODUCTION -- , PART I: BEFORE ELLIS ISLAND -- , 1. Early Years -- , 2. Army Days -- , PART II: THE CONTEXT -- , 3. Immigration, Intelligence, and the Public Health Service -- , 4. The Measurement of Intelligence -- , 5. At Ellis Island -- , PART III: DEVELOPING THE ELLIS ISLAND TESTS -- , 6. The Ellis Island Tests -- , 7. Popularizing the Work at Ellis Island -- , 8. Practical Issues in Intelligence Testing -- , 9. After Ellis Island -- , PART IV: THE LEGACY -- , 10. Developing Performance Scales -- , 11. Borrowing the Ellis Island Tests -- , 12. What Do Performance Tests Measure? -- , 13. An Appraisal -- , REFERENCES -- , INDEX

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/rich14168

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/rich14168

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Umfang: XXXII, 309 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-231-14168-0

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-51211-4

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): 1885-1946 Knox, Howard Andrew ; Intelligenztest ; Testkonstruktion ; Biografie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxxii, 309 p.) : , ill.

ISBN: 9780231512114 (ebook) :

Inhalt: Howard Knox served as assistant surgeon at Ellis Island during the 1910s, administering a range of verbal and non-verbal tests to determine the mental capacity of potential immigrants. The book presents a portrait of psychological testing and its limits, particularly the predicament of the people examined at Ellis Island. It concludes with the development of Knox's work in later decades and its changing application in conjunction with modern psychological theory.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version : ISBN 9780231141680

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Columbia scholarship online