Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Assessment usually involves both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.
2. Effective assessment involving individuals from other cultures can still be accomplished
even if the persons doing the assessment have no knowledge about the histories, customs, and modes of interaction of the groups in question.
3. In culturally sensitive psychological assessment the goal is to find enough equivalence
between disparate cultural or ethnic groups so that the elimination of any bias that favors one group or individual over another is possible.
4. Structural equivalence is satisfied if an instrument measures the same construct in different cultural or ethnic groups.
5. The qualitative approach includes the assessment of what may well be the most important aspect of a person’s mode of thought and behavior, i.e. his or her worldview.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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