Differential test performance by undergraduate males and females enrolled in a developmental educational psychology course (n=167) was reported on a quantitative examination as a function of item arrangement. Males were expected to perform better than females on tests whose items arranged easy to hard. Plake and Ansorge (1982) speculated this may…

Reviews four studies of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) twin occupational scales and correlations developed showing the degree of similarity in results of those four studies. Findings indicate counselors need to know average female and male test-taker scores on other-sex occupational scales to make accurate SCII test interpretations.…

The objective of this study was to investigate differential tendencies to avoid guessing as a function of three variables: (1) lingual-cultural-group; (2) gender; and (3) examination year. The Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) for universities in Israel was used, which is administered in Hebrew, Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. The…