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Download full textWallace, Phyllis; And Others – 1966
The research questions whether many tests used by employers for employee selection do discriminate inadvertantly. Because sub-groups or minority groups tend to be culturally disadvantaged, standardized tests have many shortcomings. When used as selection devices standardized tests may: (1) not provide reliable differentiation in the range of the…
Descriptors: Bias, Culture Fair Tests, Disadvantaged, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Bonfield, John R. – 1968
A study of institutionalized educable mentally handicapped children (EMR's aged 6-7 to 12-6) was designed to evaluate the use of subtest combinations and learning tasks as predictors of achievement compared to single individual and group tests. Fifty-one subjects received a pretest battery of six individual tests, one group test, three learning…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Arithmetic
