Bilingualism and mental measures. A word of caution

Abstract

"The school has the responsibility of supplying those experiences to the child which will make the experiences sampled by standard measures as common to him as they were to those on whom the norms of the measures were based. When the school has met the language, cultural, disciplinary, and informational lacks of the child and the child has reached the saturation point of his capacity in the assimilation of fundamental experiences and activities—then failure on his part to respond to tests of such experiences and activities may be considered his failure." Studies on the IQ levels for Mexican and Spanish-speaking children are criticized for their misinterpretation and failure to consider many social, environmental, and cultural factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)