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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…

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