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Le Wisc (Echelle d'intelligence de Wechsler pour enfants et adolescent) permet de calculer le Quotient Intellectuel Total (QIT) représentant l'aptitude intellectuelle générale, de rendre compte du niveau de performance de l'enfant pour chacune des grandes fonctions cognitives (compréhension verbale, raisonnement fluide, aptitudes visuospatiales, mémoire de travail, vitesse de traitement) et met en relief les particularités de fonctionnement des enfants qui présentent des troubles d'apprentissage. Cette nouvelle version de l'Echelle de Wechsler intègre les nouvelles données issues de la recherche en neurosciences afin d'explorer les différents processus impliqués dans l'apprentissage. Cet aide-mémoire présente l'essentiel à connaître de façon organisée : 18 fiches classées en 4 parties.

Children --- Vocational interests --- Intelligence testing. --- Testing.

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For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the authority of science and a growing belief in bio-determinism, the ordering of the many for the benefit of a few has become more entrenched. Yet scientists are now waking up to the influence of ideology on research and its interpretation. In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Genes, Brains, and Human Potential goes much further: building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, it maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential. Concluding with an upbeat message for human possibilities, this synthesis of diverse perspectives will engender new conversations among students, researchers, and other interested readers.

Intellect --- Intelligence tests. --- Brain --- Cognition. --- Psychology --- Intelligence levels --- Intelligence testing --- IQ tests --- Mental tests --- Psychological tests --- Genetics --- Genetic aspects. --- Physiology. --- Testing

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This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. This book takes as its departure point the entrenched philosophical debate between opponents and proponents of HCE and the increased feasibility of some applications of HCE. Recent calls for policy-making in the area of human enhancement reflect the need to find a balance between addressing current ethical issues and issues that are more speculative in nature or are underpinned by abstract philosophical concepts. Practical ethical approaches for policy or decision-making should enable the development of an evidence base for the risks and benefits of HCE applications. Moreover, such practical approaches should also incorporate a broader range of value bases that would facilitate convergence regarding certain decisions and judgements. This book identifies and evaluate tools that help us to go beyond polarised philosophical debates in order to assist practical decision makers in concrete ethical deliberation and decision-making. The focus is on systematic methods with which to identify relevant ethical values and assess the impacts of an HCE application on those values in order to facilitate decision-making regarding the ethical acceptability or desirability of the application. .

Philosophy. --- Neurosciences. --- Bioethics. --- Social sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Intelligence tests. --- Cognition --- Testing --- Evaluation. --- Intelligence levels --- Intelligence testing --- IQ tests --- Mental tests --- Psychology --- Psychological tests --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Moral and ethical aspects

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This book explores test adaptation, a scientific and professional activity now spanning all of the social and behavioural sciences. Adapting tests to various linguistic and cultural contexts is a critical process in today's globalized world, and requires a combination of knowledge and skills from psychometrics, cross-cultural psychology and others. This volume provides a step-by-step approach to cross-cultural test adaptation, emphatically presented as a mélange between science and practice. The volume is driven by the first-hand practical experience of the author in a large number of test adaptation projects in various cultures, and is supported by the consistent scientific body of knowledge accumulated over the last several decades on the topic. It is the first of its kind: an in-depth treatise and guide on why and how to adapt a test to a new culture in such a way as to preserve its psychometric value.

Intelligence tests --- Educational tests and measurements --- Multiculturalism. --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Multiculturalism --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Educational assessment --- Educational measurements --- Mental tests --- Tests and measurements in education --- Psychological tests for children --- Psychometrics --- Students --- Examinations --- Psychological tests --- Intelligence levels --- Intelligence testing --- IQ tests --- Social aspects. --- Government policy --- Rating of --- Testing