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Child Psych

Category - Diversity

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What was a major problem with the widespread use of the earlier individual standardized tests of children’s intelligence?
  1. An insufficient number of items at the lower end of difficulty.
  2. An insufficient number of items at the upper end of difficulty.
  3. Test norms skewed in favor of certain segments of the population.
  4. Too much scatter in the scores on different subtests.
Explanation
Answer: C - A major problem with the widespread use of the earlier individual standardized tests of children’s intelligence was that the test norms were skewed in favor of certain segments of the population. Subsequent revisions of these tests have addressed this shortcoming and have tried to make the tests fair for non-minority and minority groups alike.
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