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A test is a test are tests

Jim Cummins
Abstract: 

There are pitfalls when immigrant and minority language students are given psychological tests. Educators in many countries are becoming aware of them. In Canada, for example, most of the school boards in Metropolitan Toronto delay the administration of formal diagnostic tests and group tests of ability and achievement until students have been in Canada for at least two years. The reasons are given in this report.

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