An Overview of Cross-Cultural Testing and Assessment

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The field of psychological testing and assessment is well established in “mainstream” psychology, which has a strong Euro-American origin and orientation. Much of the history and literature on testing and assessment has to do with the extent to which techniques developed in the “mainstream” can be, or even should be, extended to other cultures or ethnic groups. Nearly all research projects in cross-cultural psychology have a measurement component. Most of the these projects involve tests and related assessment devices that either (a) use the original versions of tests or (b) use devices borrowed or copied from techniques widely available in countries where psychology is highly developed. Such borrowing or adapting can cause significant problems; this tendency has been lamented by psychologists from countries where psychology ...

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