Open AccessGROUP COMPARISONS FOR BASIC SKILLS MEASURES
Author(s) -
Breland Hunter M.,
Griswold Philip A.
Publication year - 1981
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.2333-8504.1981.tb01256.x
Subject(s) - psychology , contrast (vision) , variance (accounting) , statistics , regression , correlation , regression analysis , linear regression , demography , mathematics , geometry , accounting , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , psychoanalysis , business
Correlation, regression, and score interval analyses were conducted for six academic measures as predictors of essay writing and overall performance. Comparisons for all analyses were made for men, women, Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and whites. The correlational comparisons showed few differences across groups, except that correlations tended to be lower for the white sample because of variance restrictions. The regression comparisons agreed with previous studies showing blacks and Hispanics to be generally overpredicted. On essay‐writing performance, men were also overpredicted by conventional basic skills measures. In contrast, women tended to write better essays than would have been predicted by conventional basic skills measures. False negatives, those people who score low on a predictor but who excel on a criterion, occurred least in the black and Hispanic groups.