Thesis Hayat SABRI

Nowadays, in Morocco, the lack of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, adapted to the morrocan children, makes the neuropsychologists use the French norm when doing the WISC V. The results always show a biase due to the scale, because we observe high average gap between French and Morrocan children results. It is likely that those differences don’t reflect reality.
When the scores distribution between populations of different origins have such a big gap, it is natural to ask the socio-cultural objectivity of the study. The psychometrical evaluations come from a research tradition, which reflects the specific cultural needs and expectations. Indeed, the different cultures define the cognitive abilities according their own political, ecological and social requirements. According the culture, certain abilities can be privileged, and be reinforced. Therefore, the comparison of cognitive abilities between different populations needs, for the evaluation, the sampling of representative population, adapted to the culture of the evaluated people.
Our project aim is to study the sociocultural factors, explaining the performance gap in intelligence tests, between Morrocan and French children. Particularly, we will focuse on the use of the WISW V which is the most used in psychology. The final goal is to develop a tool for intelligence evaluation, adapted to Morrocan children and useful to neuropsychologists.

Supervisors :
- Marie-Line BOSSE- Marie-line.Bosseuniv-grenoble-alpes.fr (Marie-line[dot]Bosse[at]univ-grenoble-alpes[dot]fr)
- Jean-Luc ROULIN - jean-luc.roulinuniv-savoie.fr (jean-luc[dot]roulin[at]univ-savoie[dot]fr)

Keywords  : WISC V,Intelligence,Psychometry,Measurement bias,Intercultural differences,Socio-cultural factors,