Bias
This occurs when aspects of the test or its delivery unfairly penalize test takers due to personal characteristics.
What is Bias?
A test designed to minimize as opposed to eliminate biases in the test taking procedures and interpretation of the results.
What is Culture-Fair Testing?
This term is used to describe the alternations made to a test in order to account for a test taker's specific impairments.
What are Modifications?
Or
What are Accomodations?
Created in 1992, these are the first set of standards to address multicultural competence in assessment.
What are Standards for Multicultural Assessment?
A condition which occurs when testing materials are more familiar to one group than another.
What is content bias?
This is a culturally fair non verbal test used to measure fluid ability.
What is Culture-Free Intelligence Test? (CFIT)
The term used to describe a wide variety of psychological, cognitive, physical, behavioral and emotional disorders and diagnoses.
What are Hidden Impairments?
Created in 2009 and 2010 respectively, the standards of these two affiliated councils acknowlege the importance of cultural competence.
What are CACREP and CORE
A barrier to communicate between clients and tests who are unable to speak the specified language.
What is Language Barrier?
This assessment’s intended to involve questions and processes providing all individuals with an equal familiarity or footing.
What is Culture-Free Test?
This type of subtest is preferred over verbal IQ assessments when testing those who have hearing impairments.
What are Cognitive and Intelligence Assessments
This not-for-profit organization is considered an "association of national psychological associations, test commissions, publishers, and other organizations committed to promoting effective testing and assessment policies and to the proper development, evaluation, and uses of educational and psychological instruments".
What is The International Test Commission? (ITC)
The degree to which the beliefs a values of the test administrator may be impacting the assessment process.
What is Examiner Bias?
The process of establishing when accommodations have been made to assessments.
What is Flagging?
This is the level of visual acuity after which a person is considered to be legally blind.
What is 20/400 Vision?
Or
What is a Visual Field of 20 Degrees?
According to Standard E.8 of the ACA's Code of Ethics, "Counselors select and use with caution assessment techniques ______ other than that of the client".
What is normed on populations?
A phenomenon that occurs when individuals have a similar ability on the construct being assessed, but score differently due to the format of specific terms.
What is Differential Item Functioning? (DIF)
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?
This is the level of qualification required to administer the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition.
What is Level C?
What are the five main categories outlined in the AACE's standards for assessment?
What is Advocacy?
What is Selection of Assessments: Content and Purpose, Norming, Reliability, and Validity?
What is Administration and Scoring of Assessments?
What is Interpretation and Application of Assessment Results?
What is Training in the Uses of Assessments?