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McArthur, David – 1981
Item bias in a multiple-choice test can be detected by appropriate analyses of the persons x items scoring matrix. This permits comparison of groups of examinees tested with the same instrument. The test may be biased if it is not measuring the same thing in comparable groups, if groups are responding to different aspects of the test items, or if…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Ethnicity
Milazzo, Patricia; Buchanan, Aaron – 1982
Standardized achievement tests and instructional accomplishment inventories involve different methodologies and cannot be equated by using conventional psychometric methods. Instructional accomplishment inventories are descriptive, and are designed to reflect the scope, sequence, and skills and emphasis in a particular instructional program.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Equated Scores