- A Dedication in Memoriam of Dr. Thomas Oakland
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The History and Current Status of Testing Across Cultures and Countries
- 3 A Brief History of the International Test Commission
- 4 The ITC Guidelines
- 5 Measuring and Understanding Intellectual and Other Abilities
- 6 Measuring States and Traits in Motivation and Emotion
- 7 A Look Inside the Toolbox
- 8 Values
- 9 Assessment of Career Interests
- 10 Personality Assessment
- 11 Psychopathology
- 12 Neuropsychological Assessment
- 13 Testing in Educational and Developmental Settings
- 14 Test Use in Work Settings
- 15 Clinical Assessment in International Settings
- 16 Forensic Context Testing
- 17 Advances in Rehabilitation and Health Assessments
- 18 Testing Individuals with Disabilities
- 19 Children and Adolescents
- 20 Taking Diversity into Account
- 21 Language and Culture in Testing
- 22 Testing and Assessment of Immigrants and Second-Language Learners
- 23 Indigenous Approaches to Testing and Assessment
- 24 Response Biases
- 25 Test Adaptations
- 26 Multigroup Comparisons
- 27 Technology and Testing
- 28 Reliability and Validity
- 29 Ethical Standards, Guidelines, and Related Issues Pertinent to International Testing and Assessment
- 30 Norming
- 31 Assessment Design for Accuracy of Scores, Meaningfulness of Interpretations, and Fairness of Decision-Making in High-Stakes Educational Testing
- Index
(p. 300) Language and Culture in Testing
- Chapter:
- (p. 300) Language and Culture in Testing
- Author(s):
Franziska Schwabe
, Alina A. von Davier
, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780199356942.003.0021
Testing culturally and linguistically diverse populations challenges test developers and test users across the world. In the context of educational and psychological tests, validity and fairness issues associated with developing these tests have increased substantially due to significant changes in the test takers’ demographics. This chapter focuses on four interrelated issues pertaining to language and culture in testing (LCT): test purposes, constructs to be measured, target populations, and test construction and data analysis. All issues are discussed in the light of fairness and validity for test takers from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Special attention is given to language-minority test takers. The chapter combines research results from different perspectives with a special emphasis on work done in the fields of language assessment and psychometrics. Examples of language and educational content assessments are provided and discussed from different perspectives.
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- A Dedication in Memoriam of Dr. Thomas Oakland
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The History and Current Status of Testing Across Cultures and Countries
- 3 A Brief History of the International Test Commission
- 4 The ITC Guidelines
- 5 Measuring and Understanding Intellectual and Other Abilities
- 6 Measuring States and Traits in Motivation and Emotion
- 7 A Look Inside the Toolbox
- 8 Values
- 9 Assessment of Career Interests
- 10 Personality Assessment
- 11 Psychopathology
- 12 Neuropsychological Assessment
- 13 Testing in Educational and Developmental Settings
- 14 Test Use in Work Settings
- 15 Clinical Assessment in International Settings
- 16 Forensic Context Testing
- 17 Advances in Rehabilitation and Health Assessments
- 18 Testing Individuals with Disabilities
- 19 Children and Adolescents
- 20 Taking Diversity into Account
- 21 Language and Culture in Testing
- 22 Testing and Assessment of Immigrants and Second-Language Learners
- 23 Indigenous Approaches to Testing and Assessment
- 24 Response Biases
- 25 Test Adaptations
- 26 Multigroup Comparisons
- 27 Technology and Testing
- 28 Reliability and Validity
- 29 Ethical Standards, Guidelines, and Related Issues Pertinent to International Testing and Assessment
- 30 Norming
- 31 Assessment Design for Accuracy of Scores, Meaningfulness of Interpretations, and Fairness of Decision-Making in High-Stakes Educational Testing
- Index
