MS137: Addressing Cultural-Linguistic Impact on Cognitive Ability Score Validity

Friday, February 16, 2024
4:00 PM–5:50 PM CST

  • PMD: 1,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. visualize the cultural-linguistic impact on cognitive performance scores;
  2. understand the basis for predicted performance;
  3. learn how to apply comparisons of expected scores versus scores obtained through evaluation; and
  4. address validity for diverse student cognitive performance.

Description

The presentation will discuss the measure of Diverse Student Normal Ability Performance (D-SNAP) approach for assessing the impact of diversity on cognitive score validity.

Presenter(s)

Larry Pristo, Arizona Psychological & Support Services / Washington Elementary School District
Samuel O. Ortiz, St. John's University

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