Explain 3 Major Differences in Assessment Between Empiricist Models and Constructionist

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Essay

Explain 3 major differences in assessment between Empiricist models and Constructionist models, according to Dean & Poorvu: Assessment and Formulation: A Contemporary Social Work Perspective.

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Definitions:

Grandfather Clauses

Legal provisions allowing those who could vote before the Civil War, and their descendants, to bypass literacy tests and other voting barriers, effectively disenfranchising Black voters.

Fifteenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

NAACP

Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights group established to combat racism, lynching, and the segregation laws known as Jim Crow, aiming to improve the lives of people of color.

The Crisis

The Crisis refers to the official magazine of the NAACP, founded in 1910, which was a major outlet for African-American political and cultural discourse in the early 20th century.