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Sex Bias in Educational Aptitude and Achievement Tests: What Do We Know? [electronic resource] : Draft / Marlaine E. Lockheed.

Empirical studies are reviewed of sex bias and psychometric bias in aptitude and achievement tests. It is concluded that: (1) of four studies of sex bias, all found that the language used in the tests favored males, but, at the elementary-secondary level, sex bias has been decreasing; (2) of 15 anal...

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Main Author: Lockheed, Marlaine E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1979.
Subjects:
Achievement Tests.
Aptitude Tests.
College Entrance Examinations.
Difficulty Level.
Educational Testing.
Elementary Secondary Education.
Females.
Higher Education.
Item Analysis.
Measurement Techniques.
Psychometrics.
Research Reviews (Publications)
Sex Differences.
Sex Discrimination.
Test Bias.
Test Construction.
Test Interpretation.
Test Items.
Test Validity.

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