Contributions of ability and attainment testing in Africa to a general theory of intellect
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educationType de record:
paper
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S.H
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Cam
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Summary Factor analytic studies in Africa are compared with other cross-cultural investigations into the structure of abilities in different ethnic groups. Similarities and differences are noted; and environmental influences on the acquisition of skills are also summarized. A correlational study of wrong answers to a battery of thirty marker tests given to a group of predominantly Mashona students indicates that efficiency skills of numerical facility and memory remain at the first order of factor extraction, reasoning abilities emerge in second-order analysis, while perceptual styles are present in the third-order level. This study is used to hypothesize, in the
context of African systems of thought, the existence of a primary thought mode that asserts itself in conditions involving repeated errors.
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