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INTERACTION OF RACE AND TEST ON READING PERFORMANCE SCORES
Author(s) -
EAGLE NORMAN,
HARRIS ANNA S.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1969.tb00669.x
Subject(s) - psychology , metropolitan area , test (biology) , reading (process) , race (biology) , racial differences , statistical significance , standardized test , achievement test , mathematics education , developmental psychology , ethnic group , statistics , mathematics , medicine , sociology , political science , gender studies , paleontology , pathology , anthropology , law , biology
This study examines the relationship between race and performance on two nationally standardized reading tests. The appropriate reading tests of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and Metropolitan Achievement Battery were administered to all fourth and sixth‐grade students in all elementary schools of an urban school district near New York City. Although white pupils earned higher scores than nonwhite pupils on both tests, the Metropolitan produced significantly greater differences between the races than the Iowa, at both grade levels. Factorial analysis of variance confirmed the statistical significance of these differences. Implications of Race X Test (suggesting S.E.S. X Test) interaction effects for program evaluation and instruction are briefly discussed.