Howard Andrew Knox

Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island

John Richardson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2011
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-14168-0 (ISBN)

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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 Consulting published and unpublished sources, Richardson establishes a chronology of Knox's life, including details of his medical training and his time as a physician for the U.S. Army.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 of Knox's work in later decades and its changing application in conjunction with modern psychological theory.

John T. E. Richardson is the professor of student learning and assessment at The Open University in the United Kingdom and a former professor of psychology and head of the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University. He is an academician of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, a fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education. He is an associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Psychology Teaching Review, and among his fifteen coauthored and coedited books are Gender Differences in Human Cognition, Imagery: Current Developments, The Future of Higher Education, Intelligent Systems in a Human Context, and Mental Imagery and Human Memory.

Illustrations Tables Foreword by Robert J. Sternberg 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2011
Zusatzinfo	32 illus.; 11 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-231-14168-8 / 0231141688
ISBN-13	978-0-231-14168-0 / 9780231141680
Zustand	Neuware