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Nondiscriminatory Evaluation.
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Bailey, Donald B., Jr.; Harbin, Gloria L. – Exceptional Children, 1980
Current efforts to reduce bias in assessment and placement of children with special needs has included the development of new testing procedures, use of adaptive behavior scales, use of criterion referenced measures, and interpretation of test results using local or special group norms. (SBH)
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Test Bias
Process- and Product-Dominant Testing of Disadvantaged and Nondisadvantaged Appalachian Children
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Strein, William; Ysseldyke, James E. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Results by 30 disadvantaged and 30 nondisadvantaged first grade rural children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the modified Blind Learning Aptitude Test confirmed two hypotheses on product-dominant and process-dominant tests. (MC)
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Tests
Performance of Bilingual Children on the Spanish Version of the ITPA.
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Perez, Fred McCall – Exceptional Children, 1980
A Spanish version of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and its English translation were administered alternatively to 297 kindergarten and second-grade Hispanic children from bilingual classes. Results cast doubt on court decisions that require bilingual Hispanic children to be tested in the language predominant in the home.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Culture Fair Tests, Hispanic Americans, Primary Education
Identifying Achievement Potential in Minority Group Students
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Grant, Thomas E.; Renzulli, Joseph S. – Exceptional Children, 1975
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, College Admission, Culture Fair Tests
Language, Culture, and Exceptional Children
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Gonzalez, Gustavo – Exceptional Children, 1974
The science of linguistics contributes to the study of cultural diversity and the education of exceptional children.
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Speech-Sound Discrimination Ability on Linguistically Unbiased Tests
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Bryen, Diane N. – Exceptional Children, 1976
Speech sound discrimination was assessed using a bilingual perspective with 32 Black, 32 White, and 32 Puerto Rican first and second grade children from a lower socioeconomic background. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests