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ERIC Number: EJ677844
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3085
Intellectual Assessment of Language Minority Students: What Do School Psychologists Believe Are Acceptable Practices?
Bainter, Tracey R.; Tollefson, Nona
Psychology in the Schools, v40 n6 p599-603 Nov 2003
Surveys school psychologists to examine the acceptability of methods used to assess the cognitive ability of language minority students. Responses indicated that the use of a bilingual school psychologist, and the use of tests in English when a student is dominant in English were usually or always acceptable. Sometimes or usually acceptable were the use of nonverbal tests and foreign-normed tests. (Contains 13 references, 1 table, and 1 appendix.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Methods, Language Minorities, Norms, School Psychologists, Student Evaluation, Surveys
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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