Cultural Validity in Assessment: Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity (repost)

María del Rosario Basterra, Elise Trumbull, “Cultural Validity in Assessment: Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity”
2011 | ISBN-10: 0415999790, 0415999804 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB

What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers – as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment – provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory, research, and practice. The book lays out criteria for culturally valid assessment and recommends specific strategies that teachers can use to design and implement culturally valid classroom assessments.

Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from mainstream, middle-class backgrounds. Given the significance of testing in education today, cultural validity in assessment is an urgent issue facing educators. This book is essential reading for addressing this important, relevant topic.

Psychological Assessment: A Problem-Solving Approach

Julie A. Suhr PhD, “Psychological Assessment: A Problem-Solving Approach”
English | ISBN: 146251958X | 2015 | 322 pages | PDF | 5 MB

This authoritative clinical reference and text provides a complete guide to conducting empirically based assessments to support accurate diagnoses and better clinical care. The book builds crucial skills for gathering and interpreting data for specific assessment purposes. It also presents more advanced ways to integrate information from tests, interviews, observations, and other sources, within a biopsychosocial framework that fully addresses the needs of each client. Particular attention is given to accounting for potential biases that affect every stage of the decision-making process. User-friendly features include case examples, advice on writing reports and giving feedback to clients, and a detailed sample report.

Johnny L. Matson - Clinical Assessment and Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Johnny L. Matson – Clinical Assessment and Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders
2008 | ISBN: 0123736064 | English | 446 pages | EPUB | 0.6 MB

Autism spectrum disorder has received increasing research in recent years, with more information on assessment and treatment than can be readily assimilated from primary literature by clinicians. Clinical Assessment and Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders summarizes evidence-based assessments and intervention for Autism across the life-span, providing clinicians with a practical overview of how best to assess and treat this disorder. The book begins with a discussion of what warrants a determination of being “evidence based” and a description of the disorder from a life span perspective. The book also provides a chapter on differential diagnosis of autism relative to other disorders. What follows are separate sections on assessment and intervention. These chapters discuss first how to assess and then separately how to treat behavioral problems, communication and social skills issues, academic and vocational skills, and the use of pharmacology and an assessment of possible pharmacological effects. Intended for practitioners assessing and treating children with developmental delays, the book provides clinicians with best practices for assessing and treating delays associated with autism.

* Covers the full range of Autism Spectrum Disorders

* Covers the lifespan

* Focuses on evidence-based assessment and treatment