Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 184-193Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11065-008-9067-9
Keywords
Cross-cultural neuropsychology; Measurement; Genomics; Ethnicity; Race; Differential item functioning
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- NIA NIH HHS [R13 AG030995, P30 AG010129-129001, P30 AG010129, R01 AG010220, R01 AG010220-16, R13 AG030995-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [K01 NS054722-03, K01 NS054722] Funding Source: Medline
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The measurement of cognitive abilities across diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic groups has a contentious history, with broad political, legal, economic, and ethical repercussions. Advances in psychometric methods and converging scientific ideas about genetic variation afford new tools and theoretical contexts to move beyond the reflective analysis of between-group test score discrepancies. Neuropsychology is poised to benefit from these advances to cultivate a richer understanding of the factors that underlie cognitive test score disparities. To this end, the present article considers several topics relevant to the measurement of cognitive abilities across groups from diverse ancestral origins, including fairness and bias, equivalence, diagnostic validity, item response theory, and differential item functioning.
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