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The implications in Jeff Millar's Sept. 26 column, "Test biases, shortcomings raise questions," are that the Scholastic Assessment Test suffers from racial bias. If it is biased against nonwhite males, it will underpredict the minorities' college performance. Numerous studies sho...

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Published inThe Houston chronicle (1912)
Main Author KENDAL HIRSCHI, HEATHER FIREMAN, ROBERT M. EOFF, JACQUELINE CURTIS, STEVE CARLSON, RONNIE SMITH, JOHN C. "JACK" TYLER III
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston, Tex Hearst Communications Inc., Hearst Newspapers Division 30.09.1999
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Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
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Summary:The implications in Jeff Millar's Sept. 26 column, "Test biases, shortcomings raise questions," are that the Scholastic Assessment Test suffers from racial bias. If it is biased against nonwhite males, it will underpredict the minorities' college performance. Numerous studies show that the SAT predicts college performance equally well for all groups - regardless of race or economic status. Furthermore, culturally biased questions do not negatively affect minority SAT scores. Tests using numerous questions, some of which appear culturally biased, produce results which are counterintuitive. The white male vs. minority differences on test questions are wider on items that appear culturally neutral than on items that appear to be culturally loaded.
ISSN:1074-7109