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Download full textBoldt, Robert F. – 1972
This paper describes several situations in which generalization of statistical results is not possible by representative sampling but which is attempted using corrections for selection of groups. The situations include hiring, admissions, differential classification, guidance, test score equating, and test score scaling. Evidence of inaccuracies…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Competitive Selection
Gardner, Eric F. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1978
It is suggested that bias--when associated with a predictor, a test, or a statistical estimator--is not always bad, in spite of the immediate negative response evoked by the word, bias. Four settings are described to illustrate situations in which a procedure should not be summarily rejected due to bias: (1) educational researchers rejected the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bias, Competitive Selection, Emotional Response
