Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment edited by Ronald K. Hambleton, Peter F. Merenda & Charles D. Spielberger
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation and conceptual and methodological issues in test adaptation are described in detail, and questions of ethics and concern for validity of test scores in cross-cultural contexts are carefully examined. Advances in test translation and adaptation methodology, including statistical identification of flawed test items, establishing equivalence of different language versions of a test, and methodologies for comparing tests in multiple languages, are reviewed and evaluated. The book also focuses on adapting ability, achievement, and personality tests for cross-cultural assessment in educational, industrial, and clinical settings. This book furthers the ITC's mission of stimulating research on timely topics associated with assessment. It provides an excellent resource for courses in psychometric methods, test construction, and educational and/or psychological assessment, testing, and measurement. Written by internationally known scholars in psychometric methods and cross-cultural psychology, the collection of chapters should also provide essential information for educators and psychologists involved in cross-cultural assessment, as well as students aspiring to such careers.
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Six Practice Tests for the iBT gives students plenty of practice as they prepare for the Internet based TOEFL (iBT) or the new form of the institutional TOEFL (ITP).This new book/audio set contains a concise description of the TOEFL and the types of questions in each section, as well as six full length tests that have not been published before. Six Practice Tests for the iBT can be used in a number of ways: * As practice for the TOEFL iBT * As practice for the new TOEFL ITP * As a companion to Delta s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL®Test: Advanced Skill Practice for the iBT * As the primary or secondary text in a TOEFL preparation course * As a resource for independent study or laboratory Features of the book: * Description of the TOEFL and various questions * Six new full length practice tests * Over 600 questions in TOEFL format * Complete answer key and audio scripts * Charts to record test scores and monitor progress Audio CDs * Audio texts for all tests * 6 hours of listening on 6 compact disks