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Aptitudes et classes sociales : accès et succès dans l'enseignement supérieur

1981

Mingat Alain. — Aptitudes and Social Classes : Access to and Success in Higher Education. In this paper, two types of social selection in education are considered. In the first place, the proportions in higher education in various social groups are compared to the distribution of measured intelligence in these groups. The adequacy of measurements of intelligence is not discussed, but account is taken of the fact that IQ measures are used in educational institutions for the purposes of assessment. It is noted that if entry into higher education were dependent entirely on the achievement of high IQs, the proportions of workers' and farmers' children in higher education would be far greater th…