Assessment, culture

refers to professional ability to respect, recognize, value, and honor the belief and values of clients and families being served.

• cultural competence/cultural responsiveness

• cultural tendencies

• cultural clarity

• none of the above

error in a student's second language (L2) that is directly produced by the influence of the first language.

• inference/transfer

• code-switching

• silent period

• language loss

refers to the extent to which it reflects the child's actual, daily environment and life experience

• ecological validity

• content validity

• acculturation validity

• preservation validity

targets a client's day-to-day communication skills in naturalistic and personally socially meaningful contexts.

• functional assessment

• client-specific procedures

• criterion-reference testing

• authentic assessment

is evaluated not against the statistical norms but against a standard of performance.

• criterion-reference assessment

• functional assessment

• authentic assessment

• dynamic assessment

avoids contrived test situations and samples speech and language skills in everyday contexts of realistic learning situations and demands

• authentic assessment

• functional assessment

• criterion-reference assessment

• dynamic assessment

If a test is being evaluated to see whether responses to the items on the first half of the test correlates with responses to the items on the second half, then that test is being evaluated for

• split-half reliability

• test-retest reliability

• interjudge reliability

• parallel form reliability

refers to consistency of measures when the same test is administered to the same people twice. When the two sets of scores are positively correlated, the stability of the scores over time is assumed.

• test-retest reliability

• alternate-form reliability

• split-half reliability

• interjudge reliability

based on the consistency of measures when two parallel forms of the same tests are administered to the same persons.

• alternate-form reliability

• test-rest reliability

• interjudge reliability

• split-half reliability

If this test has adequate construct validity, then

• several judges have agreed that the test has been constructed appropriately and measures what it purports

• the test scores are consistent with theoretical concepts

• the test items are relevant to measuring what the test purports to measure

• the test accurately predicts future performance on a related task