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Social class differences on the Boehm test of basic concepts: Are they due to bias?
Author(s) -
Silverstein A. B.,
Belger Kymberli A.,
Morita Denise N.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198210)19:4<431::aid-pits2310190403>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , socioeconomic status , social class , standardization , response bias , rank (graph theory) , class (philosophy) , social psychology , developmental psychology , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , demography , computer science , population , paleontology , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , sociology , political science , law , biology , operating system
One of Jensen's internal criteria for the detection of bias was applied to the standardization data for the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC). Despite sizable social class differences in mean scores, differences in the rank orders of item difficulties were negligible. Thus, by this one criterion, there was little evidence of test bias. Instead, the findings suggest that children of different socioeconomic levels master basic concepts in about the same temporal order, differing only in the rate at which they do so.