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Gardner, Eric F. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1978
It is suggested that bias--when associated with a predictor, a test, or a statistical estimator--is not always bad, in spite of the immediate negative response evoked by the word, bias. Four settings are described to illustrate situations in which a procedure should not be summarily rejected due to bias: (1) educational researchers rejected the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bias, Competitive Selection, Emotional Response
