A supplemental text presenting and elucidating "the major trends, theories, and practices in assessing the culturally different." The book will comprise chapters from some of the current key leading authors in intelligence and intelligence testing.

Presenting the major trends, theories and practices in cross-cultural assessment, this volume focuses on intelligence and intelligence testing, particularly as applied to people from racial and ethnic minority groups who are also socioeconomically and culturally deprived. The theme running throughout is that IQ tests and traditional standardized tests of cognitive ability, while appropriate for middle-class mainstream individuals regardless of their race or ethnicity, are neither valid nor reliable for those who grow up in environments that are deficient - for example, because of inadequate rearing or serious economic stress. The book proposes alternative approaches to assessing cognitive ability in persons from such backgrounds.

Chapter 1: Cross-Cultural Assessment: Issues and Alternatives - Chapter 2: Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC): Theory and Application - Chapter 3: Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC): Recent Research - Chapter 4: The LPAD: An Alternative Approach to the Assessment of Learning Potential - Chapter 5: Linking Assessment to Intervention with Instrumental Enrichment - Chapter 6: All Intelligence Testing is "Cross-Cultural" - Chapter 7: Non-Traditional Uses of Traditional Aptitude Tests - Chapter 8: Multicultural Assessment and the Bruos Institute of Mental Measurements - Name index - Subject Index - Biographical Sketch