PSY 3307 Lecture Notes - Authentic Assessment, Psychometrics, Cultural Bias

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3307
• Professor: jonathon Donahue

Document Summary

Invasion in privacy: code of conduct: test for things they are not aware of or are not required. Protected information cannot be published for the public to see. Not fair to collect for one study and use if for a study in coming years. Gender bias, language issues, examples: white, middles class, men: biased against other ethnic backgrounds and not generalizeable. Cultural bias; fairness to minority groups: not giving respect and information to other ethnic groups regarding the procedure, use and collection of information, tuskegee study; authority issues, desiring one type of ethnic background; studying a culture with. Self-incrimination-no rebuttal: right to not say things that will put you in legal turmoil, affecting the personal lives of those who participate. Criterion reference instead of norm reference: particular value vs comparing to testing group, predefined set of criteria vs relative score to the one group.