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Synopsis
Presenting the major trends, theories, and practices in assessing culturally diverse clients, Advances in Cross-Cultural Assessment comprises chapters from some of the key leading authors in intelligence and intelligence testing. Author Ronald J. Samuda and associates contend that classic IQ tests and traditional standardized tests of cognitive ability are only appropriate for middle-class mainstream individuals, not for those of different cultural backgrounds. For those who grow up in deficient environmental backgrounds (inadequate rearing, serious economic stress), the traditional objective standardized tests are neither valid nor reliable in measuring intelligence. A number of scholars, some of whom are among the bookAEs contributing authors, have introduced alternative approaches to assessing cognitive ability in persons from such backgrounds. A groundbreaking volume that encourages professionals to treat individuals on an individual basis, Advances in Cross-Cultural Assessment will heighten the awareness of professionals and academics in clinical and counseling psychology, educational psychology, social work, psychology, public health, and ethnic studies.
Synopsis
Presenting the major trends, theories and practices in cross-cultural assessment, this volume focuses on intelligence and intelligence testing, particularly as applied to people from racial and ethnic minority groups who are also socioeconomically and culturally deprived.
The theme running throughout is that IQ tests and traditional standardized tests of cognitive ability, while appropriate for middle-class mainstream individuals regardless of their race or ethnicity, are neither valid nor reliable for those who grow up in environments that are deficient - for example, because of inadequate rearing or serious economic stress. The book proposes alternative approaches to assessing cognitive ability in persons from such backgr
Table of Contents
Cross-cultural assessment : issues and alternatives -- Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children : theory and application -- Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) : recent research -- The Learning potential assessment device : an alternative approach to the assessment of learning potential -- Linking assessment to intervention with instrumental enrichment -- All intelligence testing is "cross-cultural" : constructing intelligence tests to meet the demands of person, task, situation interactions -- Nontraditional uses of traditional aptitude tests -- Multicultural assessment and the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements : on the cutting edge of measurement concerns.