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The Importance of Context in Testing: A Meta-Analysis.

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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – 1985

This article presents a meta-analysis of the effects of examiner familiarity/unfamiliarity on children's performance during individual testing. Data came from 22 controlled studies involving 1489 subjects. In a typical study, the effect of examiner familiarity raised test performance by .35 standard deviations. Differential performance favoring…

Descriptors: Context Effect, Disabilities, Effect Size, Examiners

You Can Take a Test Out of the Situation, but You Can't Always Take the Situation Out of a Test: Bias in Minority Assessment.

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Fuchs, Douglas – 1985

This article presents a quantitative synthesis of examiner familiarity effects on Caucasian and minority students' test performance. Fourteen controlled studies were coded in terms of methodological quality (high vs. low) and race-ethnicity (Caucasian vs. Black and Hispanic). An analogue to analysis of variance conducted on weighted unbiased…

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Blacks, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education