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Kristin Bartlett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At the highest level, this dissertation is a case study on how bias can become encoded into the tools used to measure a construct and into the very definition of the construct itself. In this case, the construct is spatial ability. This dissertation focuses on the validity and accuracy of spatial tests and illuminates gender bias that is…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Student Evaluation, Measures (Individuals), Validity
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Egset, Kaja; Wold, Bjørnar; Krogstie, John; Sigmundsson, Hermundur – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The aim of the study was to focus on whether visual processing differs between distinct levels of reading competence in young adults, from a regular orthography. We compared the 10% highest scoring (HRC) and the 10% lowest scoring groups (LRC) of reading competence (using the word chain test, WCT) in visual processing of global coherent motion and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Young Adults