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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Cultural Bias"”.
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Cultural Bias In English Language Arts Curriculum And Its Effect On African American And Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners In A Municipal School
… prior to 1970 in the United States were not culturally responsive to African Americans, and that assumption includes that some research has been conducted on culturally responsive textbooks and African Americans since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, even in today's 21st century market, …
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Psychological assessment in vocational rehabilitation: A qualitative exploration of acculturation assessment and clinician testing practices
… access to services and vocational planning. Cultural bias inherent in standardized tests and inappropriate administration of tests can lead to invalid test results. Assessment of acculturation and test adaptations have been suggested as methods of cultural bias remediation. This study …
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East is East and West is West: Philadelphia Newspaper Coverage of the East-West Divide in Early America
… Philadelphia newspapermen revealed a persistent cultural bias against and rivalry with western communities. This study illustrates how pervasive this contrast between East and West was in the minds of easterners; how central a feature of early American culture they considered it to be.
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Prevalence of Autistic-Like Traits in General Population Bilingual and Monolingual Samples and Their Effect on Cognition and Metaphor Processing/Interpretation
… development. Nevertheless, recent work has shown cultural bias in the ASD diagnosis. As bilinguals are often raised biculturally, acknowledging autistic traits in this population might be affected by the cultural bias. Therefore, to avoid such bias, this thesis takes a novel approach by …
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Understanding Muslim consumers' acceptance of self-service technologies
… has been criticised for what is called inherent 'cultural bias'. This 'cultural bias' is responsible for limiting the generalisability of TAM across cultures (from national to organisational levels). Therefore, in this thesis TAM has been extended to suit a developing country context. Numbers of …
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A Comparison of Intellectual Test Performance Across Native American and European American Children
… was supported; while other research suggesting cultural bias against Native American children on individual subtest items was not.</p>
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WISC-III Performance Patterning Differences Between Native American and Caucasian Children
… Many clinicians are unfamiliar with these unique cultural differences. Some studies suggest the possibility of a “Native American Pattern” on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children (McShane & Plas, 1982). Mishra (1982) also found cultural bias with Information, Similarities, and Vocabulary …
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Counselors' Perceptions of Training, Theoretical Orientation, Cultural and Gender Bias, and Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision
… model and its chronic problems with gender and cultural bias—all in direct opposition to counseling's humanistic, multicultural model of practice. Results of this study suggested that more training in DSM/diagnosis led to participants' higher perception of their ability to diagnose and utilize …
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The cultural-distance perspective: an exploratory analysis of its effect on learning and intelligence
… and developmental psychology. This view, the <i>Cultural-Distance Approach</i>, briefly stated is that a sub-culture's distance from the major culture, on which test questions of a test are based and validated, will determine that sub-culture’s group sub-score pattern in relation to the sub-score …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… writings about saints were written with a cultural bias used to sway the readers into a particular mindset about different historical and saintly figures. Finally, Eco’s The Name of the Rose will be used as a meta-fictional and meta-historical example of the Church’s imprisonment of …
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A discourse on geospatial technology applications in predictive analytics and evidence-based decision support for disaster research and management
… LA and Carinthia, Austria, in order to identify cultural bias in model design prior to conducting a case study where research based predictive analytics are used in a real world mitigation plan. The outcome of the study suggests that recovery is indeed measurable spatially and is heavily …
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Experiences of Parents of Emergent Bilingual Children Facing Autism Inquiry
… co-construct their children’s bilingual and bicultural experiences. Social communication/interaction (SC/I) deficits are the main diagnostic criteria of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Parents’ perspectives on their children’s SC/I, including language skills, were rarely considered in the ASD …
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Leadership from the Perspectives of Filipino-Americans: A Delphi Study
… social and political contexts represent diverse cultural views, leadership literature should also reflect that diversity. This issue is particularly important in the San Diego area for Filipino-Americans because of their increasing numbers and active participation in social and political …
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Renewal
… which permeates the art world. This is simply cultural bias; it is a short-sighted position which ultimately damages the artists it is intended to protect. In cultures where art is truly integrated into everyday life, the arts are highly respected. This is not true where elitism exists. It is …
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Renewal
… which permeates the art world. This is simply cultural bias; it is a short-sighted position which ultimately damages the artists it is intended to protect. In cultures where art is truly integrated into everyday life, the arts are highly respected. This is not true where elitism exists. It is …
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Culturally Responsive Evaluation Methods in Philanthropy: Striving for Community Inclusion Amidst Power Hoarding Practices
… can be observed through the advancements that culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) and culturally responsive equitable evaluation (CREE) scholars have made in this arena over the past few decades. The literature, however, still lacks close examination of how CRE approaches are applied in …
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An investigation into the progression of premarital fertility since the onset of Zimbabwe's fertility transition
… in the 1980s has had a strong ethnic and cultural bias. Due to evidence of the effect of migrancy and tourism on premarital fertility in border and tourism towns, an extension into the theory of migrant premarital sexual behaviour to detail the risk of premarital fertility among border …
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Seeing as aesthetic experience and creative action : visual practices with shape grammars in design education
… illogical, influenced by personal preference and cultural bias. This stems mainly from the age-old arguments positing a mind-body split that gives value to what is seen as "intellectual" over what is seen as personal, idiosyncratic, unquantifiable; and 'normalized" over what is seen as ambiguous, …
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Toward Culturally Responsive and Equitable Testing: Innovative Psychometric Analyses on Contextualized Measurement and Adaptive Testing
Measurement errors attributable to cultural issues are complex and challenging for educational assessments. We need assessment tests sensitive to the cultural heterogeneity of populations, and psychometric methods appropriate to address fairness and equity concerns. Built on the research of …
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Identifying and revealing gaps in health disparities amongst pelvic cancer patients: a grounded-theory meta-analysis approach
… education on these topics, many cases of socio-cultural bias, and an absence of patient navigation that plays a role in the delay or absence of healthcare access for pelvic cancer patients. CONCLUSIONS: Our work emphasizes the impact healthcare providers and policies have for healthcare access …
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