ABSTRACT
Diversity awareness and ethical decision-making in assessment are inextricably tied. The connection between ethics and diversity is necessarily close because assessors’ decision-making concerns people who are complex and different from one another in many ways. They are constituted of a multiplicity of facets, many of which are woven into their personal identities. Facets such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, generation, or immigration status shape how the person sees him or herself, and how others regard that individual. Assessors for whom ethical decision-making is simply the application of a set of rules, or who attempt to make ethical decisions insensible of these identity facets, are likely to fail to serve optimally the well-being of the client; the person has not been regarded in his or her fullness in this situation.
