Understanding Diversity
The totality of psychological, thought, and emotional components of behaviors and decision making.
What is Worldview
Research outcomes have demonstrated decreased performance among culturally diverse groups on a variety of assessments, resulting in?
Overpathology of symptoms or underdiagnosis of disorders.
______ are intended to involve questions and processes providing all individuals with an equal familiarity or footing, have been most prominent in the field of intelligence testing.
What is Culture Fair Tests
One in __ people are said to have a disability in the United States
What is 5.
What does ITC stand for?
What is International Test Commission
A process in which individuals encounter diverse characteristics beyond their own identity
Acculturation
Occurs when aspects of the test or test delivery unfairly penalize test takers due to personal characterstics.
What is Bias
________ is a process in which test questions reflect an expectation of previous development of knowledge, has the potential to affect testing results.
What is Cultural Loading
The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II) is used to test a persons...
What is mobility.
What is the CIRC?
What is the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Standards
When two conflicting cultural variables must be reconciled by developing a third, unique, cultural variable.
Assimilation
Types of Test Bias
Contest Bias (testing materials are far more more familiar to one group than another)
Predictive Bias (the degree to which scores predict the criterion measure performance equally well among different groups)
Examiner Bias (the examiners beliefs and values may be impacting the assessment process)
CFIT stands for....
What is Culture Fair Intelligence Test
The presence of these impairments has the potential to affect the ways in which individuals are able to learn and process information, including slower processing speeds, reduced memory retention, and language deficits.
_______ is a programmatic accreditor of counseling education programs at colleges and universities in the United States.
What is CACREP
The potential to influence the ways in which individuals think, believe, and behave
-Gender
-Age
-Disability
-Prescence of mental illness
-Military status
Language barriers, test familiarity, and motivation create
Test Taker Bias
This test provides a culturally neutral evaluation of general disability and does not require the child to read, write, or speak.
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test
_______ impairments including psychological and behavioral manifestations, are categorized by issues caused by factors unrelated to physical or cognitive causes.
What is Emotional Impairments
CIRC standard I.4 states....
“Identifies standard screening and assessment instruments that are psychologically appropriate for people with disabilities”
The practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
Diversity
DIF is phenomenon that occurs when individuals have a similar ability on the construct being assessed but score differently due to the format of specific items.
Differential item functioning
Originally designed for children with cerebral palsy that measures general reasoning ability for children ages 6 months to 9 years with sensory, motor, speech deficits, CP, brain damage, intellectual disabilities, hearing loss, etc.
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 indicates that
modifications are to be made for students with disabilities.
What are the five main categories of the Standards for Multicultural Assessment, Fourth Revision (AACE, 2012)
(1) Advocacy(2) Selection of Assessments: Content and Purpose, Norming, Reliability, and Validity(3) Administration and Scoring of Assessments (4) Interpretation and Application of Assessment Results(5) Training in the Uses of Assessments.