Open AccessTHE FEASIBILITY OF RESCALING TEST SCORES OF HANDICAPPED EXAMINEES
Author(s) -
Powers Donald E.,
Willingham Warren W.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2330-8516.1986.tb00194.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , mathematics education , order (exchange) , statistics , applied psychology , mathematics , economics , paleontology , finance , biology
A number of testing programs offer handicapped examinees the opportunities to take admissions tests under nonstandard conditions. Typically, the test scores based on these nonstandard administrations have been flagged to indicate to test users that the scores may not be comparable to those from standard administrations. In order to avoid thus identifying handicapped applicants, a panel established by the National Academy of Sciences suggested the possibility of rescaling the scores of handicapped students to make grade predictions comparable for handicapped and nonhandicapped students. This report examines this possibility and concludes that the approach is not feasible technically and furthermore that it would also have a number of potentially serious undesirable side effects.