Authentic assessment methods such as performance-based assessment can benefit students from low income or diverse linguistic backgrounds if teachers understand how to build on students' cultural and linguistic resources, recognize influences of their own culture, and address equity issues such as costs and gatekeeping effects. (SK)

Presents a cross-cultural perspective for testing practitioners. Discusses practical cross-cultural assessment issues, including test unfairness or bias. Offers solutions to testing issues regarding diverse populations. Includes 80 citations. (Author/CRR)

Analyzes patterns of laughter in bookshop service encounters in England and Italy. Finds that in the English corpus, laughter is recurrently turn-initial, anticipating an account by the assistant in the same turn, whereas in the Italian corpus it is recurrently turn-final, leaving to the customer the possibility of eliciting an account and/or an…

The authors developed a 4-dimensional Environmental Attitude Scale (EAS) on a sample of 639 university students in Turkey. Factor analyses indicated that the scale measures 4-dimensional traits such as attitudes toward environmental problems. Differences in the factor structures between this study and Western studies may reflect cultural…

Explores the role of African American studies in a global world order. As developing nations like Brazil consider racial and ethnic relations under democratic conditions, the African American experience stands as an instructive example. African American studies is uniquely positioned to address the diversity issue around the globe. (SLD)

Argues that books from minor language communities/cultures are selected not only according to merit but also according to whether the literature in question conforms with the myths about these smaller nations in the dominant culture. Illustrates this point by examining translations of Norwegian children's literature into English, noting in…

This paper discusses the figurative meanings attached to the names of different animals in different cultures, and highlights some of the problems language learners and translators face when dealing with single-word conventional metaphor. (15 references) (JL)

Discusses dimensions of diversity that cannot be changed such as age, race, ethnicity, gender, and physical qualities, and secondary characteristics that can be changed such as religion, marital status, educational level, and socioeconomic background. Reviews attitudes toward diversity during the past 40 years of organized camping and how camps…

Highlights the salience of anger in cross-racial exchanges in counseling and offers techniques for anger management in cultural competency training. (CH)

Describes an academic enhancement program designed to improve academic performance and persistence of students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Findings indicate that the program proteges perform better than the university-wide average and that dropout rates are reduced. Implications for mentoring programs are discussed. (CH)

Presents excerpts from a preconference of the 1991 American Library Association Annual Convention that celebrated the multicultural diversity found in contemporary children's literature. Four authors and illustrators (Cameron, Keiko Narahashi, Mildred Pitts Walter, and David Wisniewski) present their views of what cultural diversity means and its…

Discusses questions directed at the content and relevancy of social work education and practice in South Africa. Uses the multicultural approach to explore cultural issues in service delivery to the Nguni people. Suggests that the theoretical tools of South African social work must incorporate the clients' knowledge and values. (SV)

Presents a lesson plan in which students learn about diversity in general and examine issues of diversity in school settings. Explains how students can design a plan or proposal to promote understanding and appreciation for diversity and to combat diversity problems at school. Includes objectives, background, and student handouts. (DK)

Asserts that, in addition to children's aptitude levels, teacher and counselor attitudes and quality of school climate are critical ingredients in determining what constitutes at-risk children. Seeks to illustrate that expectations, either escalated or diminished because of race, gender, or class, represent at-risk educational practices. Examines…

Conservative views of multiculturalism have stifled discussion of how different social groups are related within networks of hierarchy and exploitation, both in and outside schools. Traditionalists see curriculum as a narrative structure inextricably tied to producing a unified culture and social identity. Multiculturalism means analyzing how…