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ERIC Number: EJ320536
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Bias in the Assessment of Handicapped Children.
Fuchs, Douglas; And Others
American Educational Research Journal, v22 n2 p185-98 Sum 1985
The effects of examiner unfamiliarity on the test performance of language handicapped and nonhandicapped preschoolers and school-age children are explored. Results indicate that examiner unfamiliarity selectively depresses handicapped children's test performance, constituting a systemic source of error and threatening the validity of handicapped students' test performance. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Examiners, Exceptional Persons, Experimenter Characteristics, Individual Testing, Language Tests, Preschool Education, Test Bias, Testing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions; Familiarity
Note: Portions of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1984).