Sex Bias in Achievement Test Items: Do They Have an Effect on Performance?.

Brown, Fred

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Publication Date: 1980-Feb

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Sex Bias in Achievement Test Items: Do They Have an Effect on Performance?

Brown, Fred

Teaching of Psychology, v7 n1 p24-26 Feb 1980

Reports a study to determine if students perform better on test items containing references to their own sex than on neutral items or items containing references to the other sex. Results indicate a significant effect when a disproportionate number of items referring to one sex are cumulated over several tests. (Author/KC)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Females, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology), Males, Psychology, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Test Bias

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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