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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: EJ316173 AUTHOR: Valencia, Richard R.; Rankin, Richard J.
TITLE: Evidence of Context Bias on the McCarthy Scales With
Mexican American Children: Implications for Test Translation
and Nonbiased Assessment.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
JOURNAL: Journal-of-Educational-Psychology; v77 n2 p197-207
Apr 1985
NOTE: Research supported in part by Administration for
Children, Youth, and Families, Office of Human Development
Services, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare
Contract 90-C-1777 and in part by a Faculty Development
Affirmative Action Grant and a Faculty Research grant
awarded by the University of California, Santa Cruz.
AVAILABILITY: UMI
ABSTRACT: Content bias of the McCarthy Scales of Children's
Abilities (MSCA) was investigated with dominant English- and
dominant Spanish-speaking Mexican American preschoolers. The
identified item bias (mostly against the Spanish language
group) is discussed in terms of information overload on
memory as influenced by language differences in word length
and acoustic similarity. (Author/BS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Item-Analysis; Language-Dominance; Language
Processing; Recall-Psychology; Young-Children
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Intelligence-Tests; *Mexican-Americans;
*Spanish-; *Test-Bias; *Translation-
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