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Article: Psychological testing of linguistic-minority students: knowledge gaps and regulations.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- October 1, 1989
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Psychological Testing of Linguistic-Minority Students: Knowledge Gaps and Regulations
ABSTRACT: Bilingualism is like random chaos for psychometrics. The literature on testing
repeatedly has documented the existence of robust and persistent anomalies in the test scores
of bilingual students. School psychology, conceivably the most test-dependent and test-defined
profession, is the recipient of an inadequate technology and knowledge base, which exposes its
growing bilingual clientele to needless levels of error and misdiagnosis. The lack of viable
regulations regarding the testing of bilingual pupils exacerbates the already difficult problems