For this discussion, I decided to read the article called “A Multicultural Assessment of Adolescent Connectedness: Testing Measurement Invariance across Gender and Ethnicity” by Karcher and Sass. The main purpose of this article was to use the Hemingway: Measure of Adolescent Connectedness to investigate if there was invariance at the time of measuring adolescent connectedness across different racial/ethnic groups and gender. This primary function seems to be multicultural inclusive as it wants to evaluate people’s level of involvement with others and with different environments. The population desired for this study included 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students (boys and girls) who belong to a variety of social groups such as Caucasian, African,
