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Download full textWelch, Catherine; And Others – 1989
The differential performance of black and white college freshmen on a direct measure of writing skills, the essay portion of the American College Testing Program's Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP), was studied. The data consisted of responses of a sample of 998 black and 3,727 white examinees to two individual prompts for…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Testing, Essay Tests
