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CONSIDERATIONS FOR STUDIES OF TEST BIAS
Author(s) -
LINN ROBERT L.,
WERTS CHARLES E.
Publication year - 1971
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.1745-3984.1971.tb00898.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , statistics , predictive validity , psychology , regression analysis , econometrics , regression , mathematics , paleontology , biology
Discussed are two problems in the investigation of predictive bias in tests: (a) the effect of unreliability of the predictors, and (b) the effect of excluding a predictor from the regression equation on which there are preexisting group differences.