Guidelines are offered for choosing assessment materials and testing Indochinese students in listening comprehension, reading, arithmetic, and educational experience. (CL)

The culture loaded Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and the culture reduced Raven's Progressive Matrices (Colored and Standard forms) were examined and compared for large samples of white, black, and Chicano school children, K-8, in three California school districts. On both the PPVT and the Raven's the three ethnic groups show large mean…

There are numerous problems involved in counseling minority group members. Rapport is difficult to establish because of the racial and/or cultural attitudes client and counselor have toward one another; consequently the client often finds his own goals in opposition to those of counseling. The existing cultural gap also leads to different patterns…

Differences in the normative data presented in the Koppitz Scoring System for the Bender Gestalt Test (a measure for diagnosing learning and neurological disorders) were compared for 838 elementary age children of the Sioux, Chippewa, Navajo, and Apache tribes and a Koppitz normative group. Considered were mean error differences and mean time…

Numerous strategies have been used throughout the years to test cultural groups. This paper grew out of the need to find and use standardized tests that would depict accurately the performance of various cultural groups in America. In order to make judgments about performance, it is wise to examine the theoretical structure from which most of the…