Intelligence Policy: Its Impact on College Admissions and Other Social Policies (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)

"The author examines the numerous facets of 'implicit intelligence policies'those unspoken directives that often profoundly influence social and educational policies-and their impact on policies regarding measured and actual mental ability"--Font no determinada The author, educator, social policy analyst, clinician, researcher, and professor, Dr. Angela Browne-Miller, examines on the pages of her unique book, the numerous facets of what she calls "implicit intelligence policies" -- those unspoken directives (and assumptions) that often profoundly influence social and educational policies and those affected by these policies. She delves into the specific impacts of such policies and assumptions on programs addressing what is presumed to be measured and actual "mental ability." This author contends that mental ability is largely flexible, that environmental and educational actions/activities can powerfully affect the expression of individuals' mental abilities. Dr. Browne-Miller is certain that the massively untapped human potential is there, waiting to be expressed. Additionally, the author develops new measures for detailing impacts of such policies, and a new framework for seeing the evolution of our understandings of human intelligence itself. See also the electronic form of this book newly published by Springer. And see DrAngela.com for more information on this author. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-4 The Bell Tolls....Pages 5-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Supply of and Demand for Intelligence....Pages 15-24 The Juxtaposition of Individual and Institutional Assessment....Pages 25-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Mapping Admissions and Other Social Policy against a Philosophical Backdrop....Pages 59-64 Academic Merit versus Fair Representation....Pages 65-80 Intelligence versus Higher Education as a Determinant of Worldly Success....Pages 81-104 Academic Aptitude versus Achievement....Pages 105-124 Rationalist versus Empiricist Views....Pages 125-136 The Illusory Faces of Implicit Intelligence Policy....Pages 137-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Potential Value of Impact Analysis on Intelligence Policy....Pages 149-152 The Impact of Implicit Intelligence Policy on Explicit University Admissions Policy....Pages 153-177 Recommendations and Conclusions....Pages 179-184 From Here to a Coherent and Explicit Intelligence Policy....Pages 185-190 Back Matter....Pages 191-255