A total of 102 Spanish-speaking preschool pupils and 104 English-speaking pupils were individually administered the Spanish and English versions of the Cooperative Preschool Inventory. Minimum logit chi-squared regression was applied to each of the 33 items of the verbal scale of the inventory. Several differences in the response patterns of the two groups were noted, although the number of potentially biased items was small (12%).
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