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An Examination of Possible Item Bias in the Responses of Spanish-Speaking and English-Speaking Children on the Cooperative Preschool Inventory Using Logit Regression.
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Powers, Stephen; And Others – 1985
A total of 102 Spanish-speaking and 104 English-speaking preschool 4-year-old pupils were individually administered the Spanish and English versions of the Cooperative Preschool Inventory (CPI) to examine item responses for possible bias. Miminum logit chi-square regression was applied to each of the 30 items of the CPI verbal scale. Each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Analysis, Culture Fair Tests, Preschool Children
Early Screening Inventory (ESI).
Welge-Crow, Patricia; And Others – Diagnostique, 1990
The Early Screening Inventory is designed to identify English- or Spanish-speaking children, ages 4-6, who may need special education services. The instrument measures the ability to acquire new skills in the areas of visual-motor/adaptive, language/cognition, and gross-motor/body-awareness. This paper describes administration, summation of data,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students, Needs Assessment
Measurement of Acculturation in a Community Population of Mexican Americans.
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Burnam, M. Audrey; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1987
A 26-item acculturation measure administered to a sample of 1,245 adult Mexican Americans demonstrated high internal reliability for the total sample and for specific sex, educational, and language groups. Among first generation Mexican Americans, those who were younger and male acculturated more rapidly than those who were older and female. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Age Differences, Culture