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Kline, P; Cooper, C. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Test scores from Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB) administered to 103 British students were subjected to oblique factor analysis. Six factors were extracted which fitted closely those described by Cattell and colleagues, thus supporting their claims concerning structure of abilities and utility of this American instrument in Great Britain. (CMG)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Fair Tests, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
CLEARY, T. ANNE – 1966
FOR THIS RESEARCH, A TEST WAS SAID TO BE BIASED FOR MEMBERS OF A SUBGROUP OF THE POPULATION IF, IN THE PREDICTION OF A CRITERION FOR WHICH THE TEST WAS DESIGNED, CONSISTENT NONZERO ERRORS OF PREDICTION ARE MADE FOR MEMBERS OF THE SUBGROUP. SAMPLES OF NEGRO AND WHITE STUDENTS FROM THREE INTEGRATED COLLEGES WERE STUDIED. IN THE TWO EASTERN COLLEGES,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Testing, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Testing
Chissom, Brad; And Others – 1978
The D-48 and D-70 (Dominoes) Tests, which are parallel forms of a non-verbal, cross-cultural test, were administered to 82 college students and 112 high school freshmen. Criterion scores were obtained on the Otis Quick Score and grade point average for the college students, and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills for the ninth-graders. Results showed a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Grade 9
ROSENBERG, LEON A.; STROUD, MICHAEL
A STUDY EXAMINED THE VALIDITY OF TWO BRIEF INTELLIGENCE SCALES, THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (PPVT) AND THE COLUMBIA MENTAL MATURITY SCALE (CMMS), TO SEE IF THESE TESTS OVERESTIMATED THE INCIDENCE OF INTELLECTUAL RETARDATION AMONG POVERTY AREA CHILDREN. THESE TWO TESTS AND AN EXPERIMENTAL MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE, THE JOHNS HOPKINS…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Group Testing
Peyser, Turkan Kumbaraci
The possibility of using translations of American reading tests for the evaluation of pupils belonging to different foreign groups was explored. Two parallel forms of a reading comprehension test geared to United States high school graduates and college entrants and the translations of these into Turkish and the relative retranslations back into…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Culture Fair Tests, Foreign Students
Meeker, Mary; Meeker, Robert – 1973
In this analysis of intelligence testing of minority group children, the implications of inadequate testing practices are discussed. Several aspects of test design are examined: deficiencies in intelligence testing, cultural bias, construct validity, and diagnostic utility. A sample set of results derived from a Stanford-Binet test administered to…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aptitude Tests, Black Youth, Cognitive Tests