Intelligence and Development Scales - Migration (IDS-M)
Welcome to the IDS-M testing
Involved persons:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Grob
Dr. phil. Martin Steppan
M.Sc. Lilia Gantscheva
In the Department of Personality and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Basel various research projects are conducted. The core aim of our research is to better understand and support human development from a holistic perspective. One of these projects is development of an instrument that better captures the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with a migration background, the Intelligence and Development Scales - Migration (IDS-M). IDS-M is a language-free, culturally fair test of ability for unbiased assessment of the potential of children and adolescents with a migration background.
IDS-M is based on the Intelligence and Development Scales-2 (IDS-2). IDS-2 are the world's first comprehensive intelligence and developmental development test for children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 20.
IDS-M represents a language-free and culturally fair adaptation of the IDS-2 providing migration-fair cognitive abilities assessment. IDS-M is a completely non-verbal and computer-based test that can also be used for children and adolescents with non-existent or minimal German language skills. It measures problem-solving ability, eye-hand coordination and motivation.
With the help of the IDS-M, the assessment of the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with a migration background is possible, so that recently migrated children and adolescents, can also receive a fair evaluation. IDS-M help to prevent children and adolescents from being classified as less intelligent only because of a lack of German skills.Children and young people can get a fair placement in the educational system as well as fair job opportunities. This is an important contribution to the integration in our society of children and youths, both with and without a migration background.
In the Department of Personality and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Basel various research projects are conducted. The core aim of our research is to better understand and support human development from a holistic perspective. One of these projects is development of an instrument that better captures the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with a migration background, the Intelligence and Development Scales - Migration (IDS-M). IDS-M is a language-free, culturally fair test of ability for unbiased assessment of the potential of children and adolescents with a migration background.
In order to make this contribution to equal opportunities, we are looking for participants for the standardisation and validation of IDS-M. You can make your valuable contribution by registering for our study.
Are you between 5 and 20 years old or is your child of this age? If so, we would like to invite you to register for participation in the study.
In about an hour, you or your child will solve various tasks that we have designed in in the form of short games on our iPad.
- The results are encrypted, and no one can access them. No official, school or other body receives a copy of the results.
- Participation is completely voluntary, and it can be cancelled at any time, if necessary.
- When all exercises have been completed, you will receive a small gift in the form of a voucher worth CHF 30.
For further information about the IDS-M test or to register for participation, please contact us via our e-mail address: mfair-psychologie@clutterunibas.ch or fill the the contact form on our website.
Thank you very much for your support!