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Buros/ETS Lecture, Ensuring Valid and Fair Content Assessments for Language Minority Students
in Buros/ETS Lecture (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 26 mins
In this intermediate-level webinar, Dr. Young discusses and describes the testing needs of English Language Learners (ELL) and some accommodations offered to ELLs in different states in the U.S. His discussion includes an explanation of validation methods particularly in the context of testing ELL students and ide...
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in Buros/ETS Lecture (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 26 mins
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In this intermediate-level webinar, Dr. Young discusses and describes the testing needs of English Language Learners (ELL) and some accommodations offered to ELLs in different states in the U.S. His discussion includes an explanation of validation methods particularly in the context of testing ELL students and identifies some potential problems that can occur. He concludes by presenting two ELL-relevant studies conducted by the College Board.
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Counseling & Therapy, Health Sciences
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Buros Center for Testing
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Buros/ETS Lecture
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures, Using Interpreters in Psychological Assessment
in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 21 mins
This is an intermediate-level presentation. Given the linguistic diversity in the United States and the frequency of cultural discrepancies between mental health practitioners and their clients, evaluators are increasingly likely to consider conducting evaluations using language interpreters. Although best practic...
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in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 21 mins
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This is an intermediate-level presentation. Given the linguistic diversity in the United States and the frequency of cultural discrepancies between mental health practitioners and their clients, evaluators are increasingly likely to consider conducting evaluations using language interpreters. Although best practice would suggest the use of bilingual psychologists and validated translated measures, these options are not always available, particula...
This is an intermediate-level presentation. Given the linguistic diversity in the United States and the frequency of cultural discrepancies between mental health practitioners and their clients, evaluators are increasingly likely to consider conducting evaluations using language interpreters. Although best practice would suggest the use of bilingual psychologists and validated translated measures, these options are not always available, particularly for languages that are less globally prevalent. The choice to use an interpreter is particularly complex when using standardized psychological measures. Few empirical studies have addressed the impact of interpreters on psychological measures, and test manuals rarely provide advice about the appropriateness or impact of interpreters. Using guidance from both psychology and language studies, this presentation will review important considerations and recommendations when using interpreters in psychological evaluations. Ethical responsibilities, legal requirements, logistical realities and best practices will be reviewed
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Counseling & Therapy, Health Sciences
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Buros Center for Testing
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers, Guiding Principles for Evaluating an Educational or Psychologic...
in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 19 mins
Because there is no simple standard checklist for evaluating an educational or psychological assessment, this intermediate-level webinar will focus on several important and timely principles for guiding an evaluation of assessment quality. Key issues to be discussed include judging the adequacy of validity evidenc...
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in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 19 mins
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Because there is no simple standard checklist for evaluating an educational or psychological assessment, this intermediate-level webinar will focus on several important and timely principles for guiding an evaluation of assessment quality. Key issues to be discussed include judging the adequacy of validity evidence, score reliability/precision, and cross-cultural translation and adaptation.
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Counseling & Therapy, Health Sciences
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Buros Center for Testing
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers
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Fairness Issues In Testing: Application And Practice Informed By Theory And Research, Latino Adults and Depression: Assessment Challenges
in Fairness Issues In Testing: Application And Practice Informed By Theory And Research (Buros Center for Testing), 55 mins
One of the major challenges often faced by clinicians is identifying the appropriate measure to accurately assess depression in Latino adults. There are a number of reasons for this difficulty. The diversity within the Latino population makes it difficult to establish measurement equivalence because there are cult...
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in Fairness Issues In Testing: Application And Practice Informed By Theory And Research (Buros Center for Testing), 55 mins
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One of the major challenges often faced by clinicians is identifying the appropriate measure to accurately assess depression in Latino adults. There are a number of reasons for this difficulty. The diversity within the Latino population makes it difficult to establish measurement equivalence because there are cultural differences in the meaning and expression of the symptoms of depression. For instance, Noguera et al. (2009) explored which Spanis...
One of the major challenges often faced by clinicians is identifying the appropriate measure to accurately assess depression in Latino adults. There are a number of reasons for this difficulty. The diversity within the Latino population makes it difficult to establish measurement equivalence because there are cultural differences in the meaning and expression of the symptoms of depression. For instance, Noguera et al. (2009) explored which Spanish language terms better described depressed mood and found that the term desanimado [discouraged] rather than the term deprimido which is considered the literal translation of "depressed" in English was preferred. These findings suggest that accurately screening for depression must take into consideration the specific meaning of words in the Spanish language. Efforts to investigate measurement equivalence have yielded promising results but there is still much more research needed in this area. Th is intermediate-level presentation will: 1) describe some of the broad issues with respect to culture, language and gender, 2) address some of the challenges associated with measurement equivalence, 3) highlight a four step model (Fernandez, 2007) for identifying and selecting translated psychological measures, and 4) discuss future directions.
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Buros Center for Testing
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Fairness Issues In Testing: Application And Practice Informed By Theory And Research
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Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education, Alternative Measures for College Admissions
in Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education (Buros Center for Testing), 47 mins
This is an intermediate-level presentation.SAT/ACT scores, HSGPA, biodata, and situational judgment tests were correlated with college GPA, self-reported performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and class absenteeism. SAT/ACT and HSGPA were best correlated with college GPA, but alternative predictors best...
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in Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education (Buros Center for Testing), 47 mins
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This is an intermediate-level presentation.SAT/ACT scores, HSGPA, biodata, and situational judgment tests were correlated with college GPA, self-reported performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and class absenteeism. SAT/ACT and HSGPA were best correlated with college GPA, but alternative predictors best predicted other outcomes. The racial composition of a student body selected using just cognitive measures or both cognitive and non-co...
This is an intermediate-level presentation.SAT/ACT scores, HSGPA, biodata, and situational judgment tests were correlated with college GPA, self-reported performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and class absenteeism. SAT/ACT and HSGPA were best correlated with college GPA, but alternative predictors best predicted other outcomes. The racial composition of a student body selected using just cognitive measures or both cognitive and non-cognitive measures in various scenarios is also reported.
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Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education
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Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education, Future of Cognitive Admissions Tests
in Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education (Buros Center for Testing), 46 mins
This introductory-level presentation will trace the changing nature of admissions tests historically as they have progressively transformed from ability tests to tests of academic achievement to an increasing degree. It will have three foci: test administration and scoring, the content of the examinations, and som...
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in Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education (Buros Center for Testing), 46 mins
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This introductory-level presentation will trace the changing nature of admissions tests historically as they have progressively transformed from ability tests to tests of academic achievement to an increasing degree. It will have three foci: test administration and scoring, the content of the examinations, and some methodological considerations. Test administration and scoring will focus primarily on technological reflections. The content of the...
This introductory-level presentation will trace the changing nature of admissions tests historically as they have progressively transformed from ability tests to tests of academic achievement to an increasing degree. It will have three foci: test administration and scoring, the content of the examinations, and some methodological considerations. Test administration and scoring will focus primarily on technological reflections. The content of the tests will consider how the admissions tests are moving from ability to academic achievement tests. Finally, the methodological considerations will involve universal design, the language of testing, keeping tests fair, and security issues.
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Improving Admissions And Learning In Higher Education
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures, Developing Methodologies for the Fair Testing of...
in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 57 mins
This introductory-level presentation will discuss emerging methodologies that address the intersection of culture, language, and testing as critical to fairly assessing students classified as English learners (ELs). These new developments build on current knowledge from the fields of psychometrics, sociolinguistic...
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in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 57 mins
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This introductory-level presentation will discuss emerging methodologies that address the intersection of culture, language, and testing as critical to fairly assessing students classified as English learners (ELs). These new developments build on current knowledge from the fields of psychometrics, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural theory, and social semiotics. They include the notion of cultural validity as a form of validity that examines ways i...
This introductory-level presentation will discuss emerging methodologies that address the intersection of culture, language, and testing as critical to fairly assessing students classified as English learners (ELs). These new developments build on current knowledge from the fields of psychometrics, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural theory, and social semiotics. They include the notion of cultural validity as a form of validity that examines ways in which culture influences students interpretations of test items, and the use of generalizability theory (a psychometric theory of measurement error) to estimate the magnitude of measurement error that is due to language factors. These new developments also include the systematic use of a probabilistic reasoning about language and linguistic groups as critical to addressing the heterogeneity of EL populations and the use of social semiotics as key to examining ways of representing information in tests using multiple modalities through different forms of accommodations and accessibility resources.
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures, The Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix and Engl...
in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 12 mins
The use of standardized tests of cognitive ability with English learners has long been recognized as a problem. Yet, the various solutions proposed over the past century to manage fairness (e.g., modifications/alterations to standard protocol, nonverbal assessment, testing in the dominant language) have all proven...
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in Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 12 mins
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The use of standardized tests of cognitive ability with English learners has long been recognized as a problem. Yet, the various solutions proposed over the past century to manage fairness (e.g., modifications/alterations to standard protocol, nonverbal assessment, testing in the dominant language) have all proven less than satisfactory in addressing the underlying issue: validity. Coupled with misplaced attention to causal factors related to eth...
The use of standardized tests of cognitive ability with English learners has long been recognized as a problem. Yet, the various solutions proposed over the past century to manage fairness (e.g., modifications/alterations to standard protocol, nonverbal assessment, testing in the dominant language) have all proven less than satisfactory in addressing the underlying issue: validity. Coupled with misplaced attention to causal factors related to ethnicity and race rather than language and acculturative knowledge development, there has been very little advancement in the use of research to guide practice with English learners. This may be due to the fact that the empirical literature on the cognitive performance of English learners has been conducted in English, not the native language. However, this knowledge base can be integrated into practice when it is understood and recognized that the measured performance of English learners without disabilities on tests given to them in English essentially represents the expected average range and provides a relative to the true peer comparison group. It is on this basis that the Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix (C-LIM) is predicated, and as such, it provides a method by which the validity of obtained test scores on English learners can be discerned directly and systematically. By arranging research on English learners performance on cognitive ability, language, and neuropsychological tests, in a manner that represents what is average,regardless of the values, practitioners can evaluate the extent to which cultural/linguistic factors affected performance and affected the validity of the intended constructs from the tests they typically administer and when administered in English. The purpose of this webinar is to explain and outline the empirical foundations of the C-LIM and describe its application to evaluation of English learners as one example of how research may be used to better and more fairly inform practice.
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Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers, Screening and Progress Monitoring Tools: Issues and Implication...
in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 54 mins
Settings in which screening and progress measures are used vary as does the purpose of the assessment. School psychologists may use measures to determine the need for additional assessment, or in the case of an omnibus instrument, as an evaluation of social-emotional functioning that is required as part of eligibi...
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in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 54 mins
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Settings in which screening and progress measures are used vary as does the purpose of the assessment. School psychologists may use measures to determine the need for additional assessment, or in the case of an omnibus instrument, as an evaluation of social-emotional functioning that is required as part of eligibility evaluations. They also monitor the progress of interventions. Clinical psychologists use these same tools, although the emphasis i...
Settings in which screening and progress measures are used vary as does the purpose of the assessment. School psychologists may use measures to determine the need for additional assessment, or in the case of an omnibus instrument, as an evaluation of social-emotional functioning that is required as part of eligibility evaluations. They also monitor the progress of interventions. Clinical psychologists use these same tools, although the emphasis is typically on diagnosis and intervention planning/evaluation. In this intermediate-level presentation, issues to consider when selecting a test such as sensitivity, reliability and validity will be examined across the different types of measures and settings/purposes. Measures such as the BASC-3 and the BASC-PM can be used for these varied purposes and will be used as cases in point. The examination of data and its interpretation for purposes such as special education eligibility, diagnosis, selection and planning treatment, and monitoring the progress of interventions will be addressed.
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Buros Center for Testing
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers, The Argument-based Approach to Validation
in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 2 mins
In his intermediate-level lecture, Dr. Michael Kane will discuss how explicit recognition of the inferences and assumptions underlying the interpretation and use of test scores can guide the process of validation by identifying which kinds of evidence are needed to evaluate the claims being made.
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in Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers (Buros Center for Testing), 1 hour 2 mins
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In his intermediate-level lecture, Dr. Michael Kane will discuss how explicit recognition of the inferences and assumptions underlying the interpretation and use of test scores can guide the process of validation by identifying which kinds of evidence are needed to evaluate the claims being made.
Field of Study
Counseling & Therapy, Health Sciences
Publisher
Buros Center for Testing
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Evaluating Test Quality: Advice From Mental Measurements Yearbook Reviewers
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