Influences of Education

1. Influences ofEducation Through The Eugenics Movement

2. IQ Test Influence on Perception of Education • Determined if people were worthy of a variety of education and employment opportunities

3. Content of IQ Tests • Beginning of sentences and fill in the blank answer • Illiterates completed pictures • More tests were given to whites than blacks

4. Human Cost • People would not get jobs they deserved • Unfair testing • Society could have been denied of many geniuses

5. Classification based on results • Goddard’s method of testing separated children in schools based on the calculated intelligence • At the Vineland Training School for the Feeble-minded, students were separated accordingly; • 25 points or lower = idiots25-55 points = imbeciles55-75 points = morons

6. Origin of IQ Testing • Alfred Binet created tasks for school kids to complete which would let teachers know which children needed help • Goddard believed this testing could be used to determine a fixed intelligence in humans

7. What were the IQ test results looking for? • Made to predict how children would do academically • Measured hereditary mental endowment • Sought to protect nation from “inferior genes” • Encouraged families with superior genes to reproduce more

8. Funding In Schools • Higher scoring would go to better schools • Better teachers, more funding • 89% of African-Americans had tested as morons and went to worse schools • People with lighter brains were though to be dumber

9. Influence on policies from Eugenics Movement • Policies concerning Eugenics movement were established and challenged not long afterwards • Established ideas of ideas of racism, sexism, and grouping of people • Policies were challenged by scholars such as W.E.B. Dubois and Otto Klineberg • Critics were published in less-viewed newspapers and journals