ABSTRACT

The field of educational and psychological testing and assessment has been fraught with many faulty practices that have resulted in many serious consequences. Unfortunately psychologists and allied professionals, in general, have failed to recognize the seriousness of the problems created by the misuse of tests and testing. Notable among one of the foremost errors that has been committed is the application and interpretation of assessment instruments indiscriminately to testees for whom language barriers and other cultural factors invalidate the testing process. Most pronounced perhaps has been the misuse of instruments transculturally in the misinterpretation of scores resulting from the application of assessments that are not appropriate to the receiving (target) culture.