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Revising SAT-Verbal Items To Eliminate Differential Item Functioning. College Board Report No. 93-2.
Download full textCurley, W. Edward; Schmitt, Alicia P. – 1993
Based on initial Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Verbal pretest data and hypotheses advanced in the research literature, 7 sentence completion and 16 analogy items with extreme levels of differential item functioning (DIF) were selected and then systematically revised and re-administered in an attempt to reduce or eliminate DIF. The apparent…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, High Schools, Item Bias
Hale, Gordon A.; And Others – 1992
As part of a large-scale project to remodel the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), this study examined the predictive validity of a prototype revised SAT, which incorporated many of the important structural changes planned for the test. This prototype was compared to a form of the current SAT with regard to several validity-related issues. Nineteen…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, High Schools
Angoff, William H., Ed. – 1971
This report was prepared for the specialist who, well acquainted with the concepts and statistics of educational measurement, needs technical information about the Admissions Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board. It brings together the findings of a considerable number of studies of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Bound Students
Minke, Amy – 1996
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has been designed to test developed verbal and mathematics reasoning abilities of college-bound students, primarily high school juniors and seniors. For almost a decade there has been a research and development process to evaluate and change the entire SAT program. These changes were implemented in the SAT I:…
Descriptors: Change, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students
