Assessment in Multicultural Groups: The Role of Acculturation

On analyse le role de l’acculturation dans l’evaluation des groupes multiculturels. Des procedures standardisees doivent etre developpees pour prendre en compte la composition multiculturelle des societes contemporaines ou les individus, relevants de references culturelles multiples, ne disposent pas de l’aisance culturelle et langagiere que les procedures d’evaluation presupposent lors de la passation des tests psychologie et d’education. La premiere partie de l’article presente un bref survol des modeles d’acculturation et souligne la pertinence de l’acculturation dans le testing multiculturel. La seconde partie aborde des questions conceptuelles et methodologiques dans l’evaluation de l’acculturation. S’ensuit une discussion sur la facon dont l’acculturation peut etre prise en compte dans l’evaluation des groupes multiculturels, par exemple en etablissant differentes normes pour des groupes culturels differents, en ajoutant une correction pour le statut d’acculturation, ou en evaluant l’acculturation et en utilisant ce score en covariation ou comme valeur seuil, ce qui decidera si oui ou non un resultat a un test peut etre interprete valablement. The role of acculturation in assessment in multicultural groups is discussed. It is argued that standard procedures are to be developed to deal with the multicultural composition of today’s societies, in which clients come from various cultural backgrounds and do not have the familiarity with the language and culture of the psychological and educational tests that is implicitly assumed in the assessment procedure. The first part presents a brief overview of acculturation models and points out the relevance of acculturation in multicultural testing. The second part of the paper discusses conceptual and methodological issues in the assessment of acculturation. This is followed by a discussion of ways in which acculturation can be taken into account in assessing multicultural groups, such as establishing different norms for different cultural groups, adding a “correction” for acculturation status, or assessing acculturation, and using this score either as a covariate or as a threshold value that determines whether or not a score on a target instrument can be interpreted adequately. Implications are discussed.

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