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Steedle, Jeffrey; Kugelmass, Heather; Nemeth, Alex – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
Many postsecondary institutions currently administer standardized tests of general college outcomes; more than a quarter of Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) member institutions do so. Using standardized tests for accountability purposes has been contentious mainly because these tests do not measure every important…
Descriptors: Test Results, Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Educational Testing
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Mishra, Shitala P. – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Investigated the effect of examiners' ethnicity on the intelligence test performance of Anglo and Mexican-American subjects. On the WISC Vocabulary, Mexican-American subjects scored significantly higher when the test was administered by Mexican-American examiners. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Educational Testing
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Piotrowski, Richard J.; Grubb, Richard D. – Journal of School Psychology, 1976
Psychologists must often make decisions about the significance of scaled score differences between subtests on the WISC-R. Differences which are statistically significant at the .05 and .01 level are presented. Cautions concerning the interpretation of statistically significant differences are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Testing