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Designed to help test interpreters learn to read scores fairly, this book examines key psychometric ideas and judgment processes and offers guidance about the effects of language, acculturation, poverty, disability, and other factors on test scores. Comprehensive in scope, forward thinking and grounded in both everyday experience and scientific rigor, this volume is an excellent resource for psychologists, government employees, educators, and lawyers who are concerned about the fair testing of diverse populations.

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• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Perspectives on Test Interpretation
• Chapter 1 Testing in a Changing World: An Introduction
• Chapter 2 Psychometric Issues in Test Interpretation
• Chapter 3 Critical Thinking in Test Interpretation
• Chapter 4 Culture and Cultural Differences
• Part II Contexts for Interpretation
• Chapter 5 High-Stakes Testing in Education
• Chapter 6 Equity Issues in Employment Testing
• Chapter 7 Interpretation of Psychological Tests in Clinical and Forensic Evaluations
• Part III Dimensions of Diversity
• Chapter 8 Language
• Chapter 9 Migration and Acculturation
• Chapter 10 Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
• Chapter 11 Visual Impairments
• Chapter 12 Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
• Chapter 13 Learning Disabilities
• Chapter 14 Individuals With Other Characteristics
• Part IV Looking to the Future
• Chapter 15 Training Psychologists to Assess Members of a Diverse Society
• Chapter 16 Test Interpretation in a Diverse Future
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editors

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From the late 1960s to the late '80s critics of mental measurement took the position that statistically significant differences in the performance of various ethnic, gender, and social groups represented prima facie evidence of bias in testing. Although setting that position aside reflects greater understanding, it also substantially complicates the measurement task. If one acknowledges that some performance differences stem from factors other than bias, one must be willing also to look systematically at those possible sources of variability. Only then can measurement experts begin accommodating the differences in a way that neither compromises the validity of the testing data, nor penalizes the individual for differences that are irrelevant to the construct measured. Test Interpretation and Diversity is a very ambitious effort to analyze the issues involved in dealing with the variability stemming from construct irrelevant characteristics. They range from cultural and linguistic differences to handicapping conditions. The breadth of coverage and the attention paid to relevant historical antecedents and current testing conditions are bound to make this book a standard among those interested in mental measurement. General readers and practitioners; upper-division undergraduates and above. D. E. Tanner California State University, Fresno