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Prac Practice tice Loo Looki ki king ng aatt C Cultu ultu ultural ral B Bias ias in I.Q I.Q.. Tes Testing ting Name: Hou Tao (Todd) Lin_ Date:

AP PSYC PSYCHOLOGY HOLOGY 3/22/2021

Part 1—Create Test Questions (10 Points) For this part of the assignment, you are going to create some intelligence test questions of your own. You will create 5 questions that you might give people to see how “intelligent” they are. In your first 3 questions, create questions that do not show cultural bias—ones that all students, regardless of background, should have an equal opportunity to answer correctly. Your last 2 questions can show cultural bias, and can be similar to those you tried on the Chitling and the Australian test. Include your test answers.

Questions: 1. If one gallon of water is equal to two cup, how many cups would I have if I have two gallons? 2. The next number in the sequence is: 1,5,25,125,_____ 3. How many days are in a year? ________ 4. Who was the first president of the United States?_____ 5. When do people in the US celebrate Thanksgiving each year? Answer: 1. 4 2. 625 3. 365 4. George Washington 5. On the fourth Thursday in November

Part 2—Respond to Questions (20 Points) Once you have taken the three tests listed above and have created your test questions, answer each of the following questions (responses should be 3/4 to 1 page each): 1.

How did you do on the three tests, and what did you learn from taking them?

Honestly, I scored very badly on all of the three tests except for those questions that only asked math. In fact, that is reasonable. Some questions are questions I have never heard of or learned of. With regard to that, my scores on those tests are a result of cultural bias. For one, looking at the Australian/American Test of Intelligence, question 9, what is the thing to do if you find an envelope in the street that is sealed , addressed and has a new stamp. The correct answer is to open it to see if it contains anything of value and send the envelope back. In addition, the most important requirement is to implement the principle of social integrity. However, in my hometown, it will be a problem if you open the envelope without approval and we believe that there is no need to take the envelope back with you. We think that the owner will come back to find it after realizing it is missing, so if you take it with you, the owner will not be able to find it. From there, we can see how my point of view is different from Australian or American. On the other hand, to Australian or American, it is something that couldn't be more normal because they have been trained for doing this reaction when they were young. For another example, according to the Original Australian Test of Intelligence, question 3, as wallaby is to animals so cigarette is to. The right answer is the tree because of Kuuk Thaayorre speakers early experience with tobacco and they think it was “stick” tobacco, hence it is classified with trees. Unquestionably, I have no idea about Kuuk Thaayorre and even now, I still don’t understand why the answer is tree. As a matter of fact, the reason for having those difficulties is the cultural bias. As an Asian, it is normal that I won’t learn something about American culture when I was in Asia. Regarding that, our scores on those tests absolutely won’t be good. Same thing as if Americans take the test about Asian culture. Therefore, by taking these tests, I have learned that cultural bias is a huge factor that can greatly hinder or help someone’s test results. This fact is especially prevalent in today’s society with the amount of people of foreign descent that come to America. Immigration controversy aside, if a child is raised in China and comes to America for college, they have to get tested and take placement exams. They will have no opportunity to do as well as the average person raised in America if the tests are not culture free or culture fair. Furthermore, I also learned that it is quite difficult to create culture fair questions since you have been steeped and engrained in your culture for your entire life. At that point, it seems impossible to have a test that is completely unaffected by culture, but if we make the test based on culture knowledge, then it may work, but it also means that the test needs to be customized for each culture.

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Students in today’s schools gain entry into gifted programs based on their scores on standardized intelligence tests. Is this fair? Why or why not?

In my opinion, this system is completely unfair to all students, and I can spend a long time on it, since I am a student who is really poor on standard intelligence tests. Firstly, each student has a different learning style and the standardized tests only cater to a specific one. For example, if we put a fish, bird, elephant, and a monkey in a test of their ability to climb a tree. Of course, the only animal that can actually climb the tree is the monkey and so, in this case, the monkey would be considered superior and that is what is happening with the standardized testing. Only students with the specific learning style will score well on the test. Secondly, doing well on those standardized intelligence tests is really equivalent to being clever, or surpassing others in learning ability? In my way of thinking, it is not equal, the learning ability of students cannot be judged based on test scores. Some students are naturally good at taking exams, and some students, no matter how hard they study, they just cannot get good results in those standardized exams. However, the teacher should pay attention to the learning process of the event and select students who are really good at a particular subject from there. Thirdly, financial status has an enormous impact on a student’s results as well. Some people can’t even afford these tests and wealthy people can pay for special books and tutors to help them raise their score so by the end, the test isn’t even measuring intelligence. Last, because students and teachers alike are so worried about results that nowadays in many classes, teachers don’t even teach their subject they teach how to pass the test. For example, in math class, we only remember the formula of the question, because we know that the question may appear in the test, but no one knows how we get the formula, and no one will question the formula. Consequently, it is unfair to use standardized intelligence test scores as the basis for entry into gifted programs or not and we have seen that nowadays, people are getting crazy because of the standardized test result. Also, standardized testing is not even culture fair or free so it will be better if schools can consider looking at the students’ learning process of the event.

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