Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

Section I. Human Assessment Worldwide.- 1. Recent Issues in Educational Selection in the Third World.- 2. Human Assessment in the Indian Context.- 3. Large-Scale Assessment of Educational Aptitude in Nigeria.- 4. Testing in Africa and America: The Search for Routes.- 5. The Assessment of Psychological Abilities and Psychologists’ Inabilities in the South Pacific.- 6. Are Western Psychological Concepts Valid in Africa? A Nigerian Review.- 7. Human Assessment — The Work of the Scottish Council for Research in Education.- 8. The Progressive Matrices and Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale in Western Societies.- Section II. Contexts of Assessment.- 9. Textured Contexts: Systems and Situations in Cross-Cultural Psychology.- 10. On the Search for the Independent Variable in Cross-Cultural Psychology.- 11. Dress Rehearsals for Psychological Performance.- 12. Context in the Assessment of Mathematical Concepts from Hunting Societies.- 13. The Child and His Environment.- 14. Rediscovering “Rote”: Some Cognitive and Pedagogical Preliminaries.- 15. Psychological Differentiation in a Rural Yucatec Mayan Village.- Section III. Assessment Trends and Issues.- 16. Studying Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities: Implications for Cross-Cultural Studies.- 17. Psychometric Approaches to Intergroup Comparison: The Problem of Equivalence.- 18. Stalking the Wily Emic: Alternatives to Cross-Cultural Measurement.- 19. The Structure, Organization and Correlates of Cognitive Speed and Accuracy.- 20. Conditional Item Bias Methods.- 21. Continuous Work Tests: Their Scope in Cross-Cultural Contexts.- 22. Measurement of Spatial Abilities: Some Comments Prompted by Cross-Cultural Studies.- Section IV. Assessing Personality and Motivation.- 23. The Cross-Cultural Use of Personality Tests.- 24. ADynamic Research Strategy for Universals in the Motivation and Personality Domain.- 25. The Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Personality Construct Measures.- 26. Personality Measurement: Do the Scales Have Similar Meanings in Another Culture?.- 27. A Measurement Study of Test Anxiety Emphasizing its Evaluative Context.- 28. Antecedents to Emotions Across Cultures.- 29. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of Coping Skills.- 30. Students’ Perception of What Causes Their Achievement in School.- 31. Comparisons of Self-Concept Scores of Children in America and Taiwan.- Section V. Assessing Attitudes and Social Behaviour.- 32. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of Normative Concepts: Some Considerations of the Affinity between Methodological Approaches and Preferred Theories.- 33. Assessment of Values and Attitudes in the Study of Fertility: Problems and Prospects.- 34. The Use of Ambiguous Photographic Stimuli in the Assessment of Attitudes to Children and Family Size in South Asia.- 35. Issues in the Assessment of Attitudes in Pre- and Marginally-Literate Cultures.- 36. Attitudes and Action: The Problem of Child Abuse in Kenya.- 37. The Benefits of Close Intercultural Relationships.- 38. Assessing the Patterns and Experience of Viewing Television.- Section VI. Assessment in Organizations.- 39. Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology: Challenges and Limitations.- 40. Estimating Causes of Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Schooling.- 41. Cross-Cultural Testing within a Multicultural Society.- 42. Cognitive Style and Language Performance of Nigerian Secondary School Students.- 43. Assessment of Spoken English Language Problems of Non-Native English Speakers.- 44. A Picture Vocabulary Test for the Eastern James Bay Cree.- 45. A Longitudinal Study in Predicting SchoolPerformances in Tanzania.- Author Index.