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Public Law 94-142 (Section 612[5] [C] of the Education of the Handicapped Act) mandated, for the first time, racially and culturally nondiscriminatory assessment procedures in the identification of “handicapped” children to be served by federally funded programs. Each state is to establish
procedures to assure that testing and evaluation materials and procedures utilized for the purposes of evaluation and placement of handicapped children will be selected and administered so as not to be racially or culturally discriminatory. Such materials or procedures shall be provided and administered in the child’s native language or mode of communication, unless it clearly is not feasible to do so, and no single procedure shall be the sole criterion for determining an appropriate educational program for a child.
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Mercer, J.R. (1984). What Is a Racially and Culturally Nondiscriminatory Test?. In: Reynolds, C.R., Brown, R.T. (eds) Perspectives on Bias in Mental Testing. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4658-6_9
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