Culture-Fair Test

Overview :

A culture-fair test is a non-verbal paper-pencil test that can be administered to patients as young as four years old. The patient only needs the ability to recognize shapes and figures and perceive their respective relationships. Some examples of tasks in the test may include:

• completing series
• classifying
• solving matrices
• evaluating conditions

The culture-fair test is also often referred to as a culture-free test or unbiased test. There are many variations of the test including class, economic, and intelligence tests. The threading theme among the various tests is their design to be culturally unbiased.