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This 3 page paper reviews bias as it occurs in education, occupational, and other forms of testing. A distinction is made between tester bias and cultural bias. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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tested to see if we have the skills needed to perform a job. We are even tested to assess our relative level of intelligence. Unfortunately, bias can be
a very real component of the testing process. Bias can appear in the test itself in the form of cultural bias or it can manifest in the person delivering
the test. Indeed, even the tester can be culturally biased and this occurs at all levels of society not just in the back hills of some remote state (Jenkins, 2009).
Whether we are dealing with cultural bias or tester bias, however, the results are likely tainted. In "Inequality by Design: Cracking
the Bell Curve Myth", Claude S. Fischer attacks the inherent bias in educational testing, particularly previous contentions that racially related I.Q. scores determine economic, social, and intellectual success levels.
He contends that instead of differences in racial intelligence there is a difference in environmental factors which tend to suppress non-mainstream individuals while propelling mainstream individuals on to more certain
success both in the academic setting and in the world once they leave that setting. Considering the extent of bias that continues to exist even today, such attacks are
certainly warranted. It is up to those administering tests to insure that the tests they are administering are not only necessitated by appropriate.
When we elect to use a test written in English to assess the knowledge skills and abilities of a child that we know is limited in their English proficiency
then we are guilty of tester bias. Whether in the educational, the psychological, or the occupational arena, as testers we must be constantly vigilant to insure that cultural bias
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