Do the Kaufman Tests of Cognitive Ability and Academic Achievement Display Ethnic Bias for Students in Grades 1 through 12
@inproceedings{Scheiber2016DoTK, title={Do the Kaufman Tests of Cognitive Ability and Academic Achievement Display Ethnic Bias for Students in Grades 1 through 12}, author={Caroline Scheiber}, year={2016} }
Cultural bias in cognitive testing has a long and controversial history. As the demographic profile in the United States continues to change and becomes ethnically more diverse, the need for culturally appropriate test instruments has become a national concern among educators, clinicians, and researchers. The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, – 2 Edition (KABC-II) and the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement – 2 Edition (KTEAII) are two well-known tests of intelligence and achievement…
Figures and Tables from this paper
One Citation
A New Look to a Classic Issue: Reasoning and Academic Achievement at Secondary School
- Education, PsychologyFront. Psychol.
- 2018
This work confirms that abstract reasoning constitutes the most important higher-order cognitive ability that underlies academic achievement and reveals the importance of dual processes, verbal deduction and metacognition in ordinary teaching and learning at school.
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 153 REFERENCES
Construct bias in the differential ability scales, second edition (DAS-II) : a comparison among African American, Asian, Hispanic, and White ethnic groups
- Psychology
- 2013
Intelligence testing has had a relatively long and controversial history, beginning with what is generally considered the first formal measure of intelligence, the Binet-Simon Scales (1916).…
K-ABC Content Bias: Comparisons between Mexican American and White Children.
- Psychology
- 1995
Content (item) bias on the Mental Processing Scales and the Achievement Scale of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) was investigated with 100 Mexican American and 100 White fifth-…
An Investigation of Possible Test Bias in the Navy Basic Test Battery
- Education
- 1972
Abstract : The research investigated whether racial bias exists in the Navy Basic Test Battery (BTB), used to assign recruits to technical schools. BTB scores and school grades were obtained for…
Factorial Invariance of Woodcock-Johnson III Scores for African Americans and Caucasian Americans
- Psychology
- 2006
Bias in testing has been of interest to psychologists and other test users since the origin of testing. New or revised tests often are subject to analyses that help examine the degree of bias in…
Ethnicity and Scholastic Achievement
- Psychology, EducationPsychological reports
- 1974
Scores on tests in 8 areas of scholastic achievement were “predicted” by multiple regression from 7 nonscholastic tests of ability, a personality inventory, and items of personal background data in…
How well is psychometric g indexed by global composites? Evidence from three popular intelligence tests.
- PsychologyPsychological assessment
- 2013
This study calculated the proportion of variance explained in the global composites by g and the group factors, referred to as omega total, or composite reliability, using large-scale, nationally representative norming sample data from 3 popular individually administered tests of intelligence for children and adolescents.
TEST BIAS: PREDICTION OF GRADES OF NEGRO AND WHITE STUDENTS IN INTEGRATED COLLEGES
- Psychology
- 1968
In a recent paper, Cleary and Hilton (1968) discussed one possible interpretation of test bias. According to that definition, an item of a test is considered biased for members of a particular group…
The Black-White Test Score Gap.
- Education
- 1998
The test score gap between blacks and whites--on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have…