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A COMMENT ON McCAULEY AND COLBERG'S CONCEPTION OF CROSS‐CULTURAL TRANSPORTABILITY OF TESTS
Author(s) -
VIJVER FONS J. R.,
POORTINGA YPE H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1985.tb01055.x
Subject(s) - cross cultural , test (biology) , psychology , sociology , anthropology , paleontology , biology
Recently McCauley and Colberg described a theory of transportability, an approach to devising test items for cross‐cultural comparative research that are free from unwanted cultural effects. They also provided data to demonstrate the feasibility of their approach. In this comment it is argued that the transportability notion resembles earlier cross‐cultural work and does not add new insights into the vexed problem of cross‐cultural comparison. It is also stated that McCauley and Colberg's statistical checks do not preclude the possibility of bias.