Negro Dialect and Binet Performance in Severely Disadvantaged Black Four-Year-Olds

The Stanford-Binet was administered to 50 4-year-old black children, selected from an extremely deprived, physically and socially isolated community, under 2 conditions of language (standard English and Negro dialect). No reliable IQ differences between the groups were found. Comparisons of item dif...

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Published in:Child development 1972-03, Vol.43 (1), p.245-250
Main Author: Quay, Lorene C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American culture
African Americans
Analysis of Variance
Black people
Brief Reports
Child, Preschool
Children
Cultural Deprivation
Dialectology
Dialects
Discrimination Learning
Educational administration
Female
Humans
Intelligence
Intelligence quotient
Language
Male
Quays
Social Isolation
Standard languages
Verbal Learning
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Summary:The Stanford-Binet was administered to 50 4-year-old black children, selected from an extremely deprived, physically and socially isolated community, under 2 conditions of language (standard English and Negro dialect). No reliable IQ differences between the groups were found. Comparisons of item difficulty yielded no differences between the groups in performance on individual Binet items. The findings, confirming the results of an earlier study using a less deprived population, indicated that young black children do not benefit from having the Binet administered in Negro dialect.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.2307/1127888