culturally loaded item

in testing and assessment, a question that is more relevant to the background and experience of the individual who wrote the question than to the individual who is trying to answer the question, such that the response may not be a fair indication of the responder’s knowledge. For example, if a question included content about a particular religious tradition it might be perceived as being a culturally loaded item if the test taker were and atheist or of a completely different religion. See culture-fair test.

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December 25th 2024

remote-association test

a creativity test in which the participant is asked to suggest a fourth word that links three apparently unrelated words, such as rat–blue–cottage (answer: cheese).