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ERIC Number: EJ930622
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
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Unfair Treatment? The Case of Freedle, the SAT, and the Standardization Approach to Differential Item Functioning
Santelices, Maria Veronica; Wilson, Mark
Harvard Educational Review, v80 n1 p106-134 Spr 2010
In 2003, the "Harvard Educational Review" published a controversial article by Roy Freedle that claimed bias against African American students in the SAT college admissions test. Freedle's work stimulated national media attention and faced an onslaught of criticism from experts at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the agency responsible for the development of the SAT. In this article, Maria Veronica Santelices and Mark Wilson take the debate one step further with new research exploring differential item functioning in the SAT. By replicating Freedle's methodology with a more recent SAT dataset and by addressing some of the technical criticisms from ETS, Santelices and Wilson confirm that SAT items do function differently for the African American and White subgroups in the verbal test and argue that the testing industry has an obligation to study this phenomenon. (Contains 22 notes, 9 tables, and 2 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: SAT (College Admission Test)
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