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What is the purpose of “culture-fair” tests? What types of items do such tests usually employ? 350 word apa format 5 paragraph format reference page book reference Psychological Testing: A Practical Introduction Thomas P. Hogan, 2015 Wiley ISBN.13: 978-1-118-55412-8

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Test Measurement

The test achieves the results it promises to achieve. Consider the following example:
an assessment of mental ability measures mental capacity and not any other trait. The exam is
related to the job. For want of a better phrase, the exam assesses one or more attributes that
are critical to the position.
A culture-fair test is a kind of test based on common human experience and is
regarded to be reasonably impartial when it comes to factors such as ethnicity or religious
affiliation (Hogan, 2013). In contrast to other standardized intelligence exams, which may
represent mostly middle-class experience, a culture-fair test is meant to be applicable across
socioeconomic lines and allow for equal comparisons between individuals from diverse
backgrounds, regardless of their social status.
Culture-fair employs nonverbal and nonacademic items, such as matching identical
shapes, picking a design that completes a specific sequence, and sketching human figures.
However, studies have demonstrated that every evaluation reflects specific socio-ethnic
norms to some degree and, as a result, may tend to prefer those from particular backgrounds
over those from other backgrounds in certain cases. It is possible to be confused by an item
containing bad rap (Hogan, 2013). The term bad rap may relate either to unfair censure or
towards rap music that was good or quite excellent, dependent on how the person often uses
the term bad.
The third edition of Psychological Testing: A Practical Introduction gives a thorough
introduction to key psychometric concepts, complemented by real-world examples
illustrating test utilization in modern practice. The ideas of reliability, validity, norm
formation, approaches to both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced interpretation,
techniques of researching test bias, and processes for test creation are all covered in detail in
this volume.

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Aside from that, the book is presented in straightforward, student-friendly language
while not neglecting challenging themes and ideas. Tests in various categories, such as IQ
and personality (both objective and projective), clinical approaches, accomplishment and
interests and attitudes, and neuropsychology, are described throughout the book.