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This book treats the major issues of assessment and access as they relate to the Hispanic communities of the United States. For the purpose of increasing Hispanic access to higher education, it explores a variety of developments in educational assessment and test familiarization, both theoretical and practical. There are contributions to this volume from researchers and test specialists from the higher education community and the Educational Testing Service.



The book is divided into four parts: an analysis of the major elements and issues that affect Hispanic performance on tests and influence Hispanic access to higher education; a review of several critical elements in test-construction as they affect Hispanics; an analysis of the factors related to testing and Hispanic access into the teaching profession; and a research, evaluation, and historical orientation to the issues involved in the development of a landmark educational product jointly conceived and produced by the College Board, the Educational Testing Service, and the Hispanic Higher Education Coalition: TestSkills: A Kit for Teachers of Hispanic Students.

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• Foreword
• Introduction: Advances in Assessment and the Potential for Increasing the Number of Hispanics in Higher Education
• Part I Hispanic Access: The Factors of Culture, Language, Reasoning Skills, and Heuristic Knowledge
• 1 Cultural and Linguistic Influences on Latino Testing
• 2 Diagnostic Testing of Reasoning Skills
• 3 Assessing Heuristic Knowledge to Enhance College Students' Success
• Part II Opening New Dimensions and Investigating Advances in Test Construction on Behalf of Hispanics
• 4 Time as a Factor in the Cognitive Test Performance of Latino College Students
• 5 Factors Related to Differential Item Functioning for Hispanic Examinees on the Scholastic Aptitude Test
• 6 Equating the Scores of the College Board Prueba de Aptitud Academica and the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Part III Testing and Hispanic Access to the Teaching Profession
• 7 Competency Testing and Latino Student Access to the Teaching Profession: An Overview of Issues
• 8 Research Directions and Practical Strategies in Teacher Testing and Assessment: Implications for Improving Latino Access to Teaching
• Part IV TestSkills: The First Course of Instruction Directed Specifically to the Improvement of the Test-Taking of Hispanics
• 9 The Development of TestSkills: A Test Familiarization Kit on the PSAT/NMSQT for Hispanic Students
• 10 A Preliminary Evaluation of TestSkills: A Kit to Prepare Hispanic Students for the PSAT/NMSQT
• Notes
• References
• Appendix A The Teacher/Counselor Questionnaire
• Appendix B The Student Questionnaire
• Contributors
• Index

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Gary D. Keller is Arizona Board of Regents' Professor, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University. James R. Deneen is Program Director of the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey. Rafael J. Magallán is a member of the California Student Aid Committee.