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Peer reviewedValencia, Richard R.; Rankin, Richard J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
Content bias of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) was investigated with dominant English- and dominant Spanish-speaking Mexican American preschoolers. The identified item bias (mostly against the Spanish language group) is discussed in terms of information overload on memory as influenced by language differences in word length and…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Item Analysis, Language Dominance, Language Processing
