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Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students' College Attendance under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments
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Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Educational Researcher, 2023
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students' College Attendance under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments
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Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Validity Generalization Results for Law Enforcement Occupations.
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Hirsh, Hannah Rothstein; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1986
Applied Schmidt-Hunter interactive validity generalization procedure to validity data for cognitive abilities tests for law enforcement occupations. Results indicated apparently lower validities and lesser generalizability for job criteria possibly due to low validity of the criterion and potential role of noncognitive factors. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Tests, Generalizability Theory, Law Enforcement
Microcomputer Network for Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). [Final Report, FY81-83].
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Quan, Baldwin; And Others – 1984
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) offers the opportunity to replace paper-and-pencil aptitude tests such as the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery with shorter, more accurate, and more secure computer-administered tests. Its potential advantages need to be verified by experimental administration of automated tests to military recruit…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Bayesian Statistics
Simultaneous Estimation of Regression Functions for Marine Corps Technical Training Specialties.
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Dunbar, Stephen B.; And Others – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1986
This paper considers the application of Bayesian techniques for simultaneous estimation to the specification of regression weights for selection tests used in various technical training courses in the Marine Corps. It concludes that a hypothesis of complete generalization of the predictor-criterion relationship would only be retained for selected…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Clerical Occupations, Electrical Occupations, Estimation (Mathematics)
A Comparison of the Fairness of Adaptive and Conventional Testing Strategies. Research Report 78-1.
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Pine, Steven M.; Weiss, David J. – 1978
This report examines how selection fairness is influenced by the characteristics of a selection instrument in terms of its distribution of item difficulties, level of item discrimination, degree of item bias, and testing strategy. Computer simulation was used in the administration of either a conventional or Bayesian adaptive ability test to a…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing