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Measuring Program Quality, Part 2: Addressing Potential Cultural Bias in a Rater Reliability Exam
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Richer, Amanda; Charmaraman, Linda; Ceder, Ineke – Afterschool Matters, 2018
Like instruments used in afterschool programs to assess children's social and emotional growth or to evaluate staff members' performance, instruments used to evaluate program quality should be free from bias. Practitioners and researchers alike want to know that assessment instruments, whatever their type or intent, treat all people fairly and do…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Social Bias, Interrater Reliability, Program Evaluation
An Investigation into the Cross-Cultural Equivalence of the Personal Wellbeing Index
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Lau, Anna L.D.; Cummins, Robert A.; McPherson, Wenda – Social Indicators Research, 2005
The Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) is being developed for the cross-cultural measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). This paper reports the findings of its utility with the Hong Kong Chinese and Australian populations. An item on affect, "satisfaction with own happiness" was also investigated to determine whether it should be added to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Quality of Life, Cross Cultural Studies
Considerations for Creating Multi-Language Personality Norms: A Three-Component Model of Error
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Meyer, Kevin D.; Foster, Jeff L. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
With the increasing globalization of human resources practices, a commensurate increase in demand has occurred for multi-language ("global") personality norms for use in selection and development efforts. The combination of data from multiple translations of a personality assessment into a single norm engenders error from multiple sources. This…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Differences, Norms, Human Resources
The Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Different Preschoolers.
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Santos De Barona, Maryann; Barona, Andres – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Discusses the increasing educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically different preschool children and suggests that there is a growing need to ensure accurate identification of minority-language preschoolers with special needs. Offers strategies to improve the value of diagnostic information and presents issues to consider at each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Caregivers, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences
Measuring the Home Environments of Children in Early Adolescence.
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Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F.; Caldwell, Betty M.; Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne; Mink, Iris T. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2000
Describes the development of the Early Adolescent version of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (EA-HOME) Inventory. Presents information on its usefulness with African Americans, Chinese Americans, European Americans, Mexican Americans, and Dominican Americans. Notes findings indicating high interobserver agreement, with…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Development, Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences
North Carolina Alternate Assessment Portfolio Pilot Program, 1999-2000. Report of Student Performance.
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North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 2001
During 1999-2000 school year, the North Carolina Alternate Assessment Portfolio was administered to eligible students with serious cognitive deficits statewide as a pilot program. This report provides state, regional, and local education agency results of that pilot program. The purpose of the pilot was to review the feasibility, validity, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education