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Camilli, Gregory – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
In the attempt to identify or prevent unfair tests, both quantitative analyses and logical evaluation are often used. For the most part, fairness evaluation is a pragmatic attempt at determining whether procedural or substantive due process has been accorded to either a group of test takers or an individual. In both the individual and comparative…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Test Bias, Test Content, Test Format
Dyer, Henry S. – NJEA Review, 1973
Retired vice-president of Educational Testing Service asserts that chances for tests being misused are greater than ever. Speech delivered at ETS's Invitational Conference on Testing Problems on October 28, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Intelligence Tests, Measurement Techniques, Test Bias
Williams, Robert L. – Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1975
A description of the rationale and the development of the BITCH-100 (Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity), a culture specific test for the American black population. Experimental evidence is reported on the norming and validation of this instrument and suggestions made as to potential advantages over the traditional testing approach as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cultural Influences, Culture Fair Tests, Group Testing
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White, Margaret B.; Hall, Alfred E. – Educational Horizons, 1980
This article briefly traces the development of intelligence testing from its beginnings in 1905 with Alfred Binet; cites the intelligence theories of Spearman, Thurstone, and Guilford; and examines current objections to intelligence tests in terms of what they test and how they are interpreted. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational History, Factor Analysis, Group Testing
Samuda, Ronald J. – Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1975
Changing perspectives in educational intelligence testing are traced from a genetically deficient model to a culturally disadvantaged or deprived model to a culturally different model. It is argued that if comparisons are to be made between people, they should be made within the context of the cultural and socioeconomic group structure of each…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnocentrism, Group Testing
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Mackler, Bernard; Holman, Dana – Young Children, 1976
The issues of culture-free and culture-fair tests for elementary school children are explored by examining specific tests and the testing situation. Investigators examined the problem of group intelligence testing vs. individual testing and conclude that tests still reflect White American middle socioeconomic class values and experiences. (HS)
Descriptors: Black Students, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Group Testing
Zinoman, Esther Axt; And Others – 1983
This publication reviews issues and processes in the quest for less-biased, least-biased, non-biased assessment. It is intended to aid the school psychologist in assisting all individuals in placement or program decisions for school-age children. The first section articulates the common sources of bias in assessment and identifies concepts…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies, Group Testing
Green, Donald Ross; Draper, John F. – 1972
This paper considers the question of bias in group administered academic achievement tests, bias which is inherent in the instruments themselves. A body of data on the test of performance of three disadvantaged minority groups--northern, urban black; southern, rural black; and, southwestern, Mexican-Americans--as tryout samples in contrast to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bias, Comparative Testing, Educational Testing
Weber, George – 1974
It is asserted in this paper that some standardized tests do not do a good job of what they claim to do, and for some testing purposes nonstandardized tests are more appropriate or efficient. Under present circumstances, group I.Q. tests should be abolished. They provide no useful information that cannot be gained from achievement tests. And what…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Influences
Larson, Gordon A.; And Others – 1981
Adult educators in the state of New Jersey have expressed concern about the adequacy of the 1978 General Educational Development (GED) test. Based on these concerns research was conducted in the use and applicability of the current GED test. The project investigated whether the existing GED test was meeting the needs of the large majority of GED…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs