When interpreting the results of a norm-referenced testing program, the availability of several expectations of test scores is desirable. Toward this objective, academic aptitude test data (the Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude) and school socioeconomic data were collected from the participants in the 1970 standardization of the California…

Scores on the Prescriptive Reading Inventory, the California Achievement Tests, 1970 Edition, the the Short Form Tests of Academic Aptitude were obtained for black pupils and representative samples of pupils in grades 1-3. These scores were compared in an attempt to asses bias in the Prescriptive Reading Inventory, a criterion-referenced…