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Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
Contributor(s): Hambleton, Ronald K. (Editor), Merenda, Peter F. (Editor), Spielberger, Charles D. (Editor)
ISBN: 0805861769     ISBN-13: 9780805861761
Publisher: Psychology Press
OUR PRICE:   $75.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2006
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Annotation: This book will critically examine the "do's" & "don'ts" in adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Testing & Measurement
- Psychology | Assessment, Testing & Measurement
- Business & Economics | Human Resources & Personnel Management
Dewey: 371.261
LCCN: 2003060545
Lexile Measure: 1440
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (1.20 lbs) 390 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
 
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Publisher Description:
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation and conceptual and methodological issues in test adaptation are described in detail, and questions of ethics and concern for validity of test scores in cross-cultural contexts are carefully examined. Advances in test translation and adaptation methodology, including statistical identification of flawed test items, establishing equivalence of different language versions of a test, and methodologies for comparing tests in multiple languages, are reviewed and evaluated. The book also focuses on adapting ability, achievement, and personality tests for cross-cultural assessment in educational, industrial, and clinical settings.

This book furthers the ITC's mission of stimulating research on timely topics associated with assessment. It provides an excellent resource for courses in psychometric methods, test construction, and educational and/or psychological assessment, testing, and measurement. Written by internationally known scholars in psychometric methods and cross-cultural psychology, the collection of chapters should also provide essential information for educators and psychologists involved in cross-cultural assessment, as well as students aspiring to such careers.