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TEST FAIRNESS
Licang Melegrito Vizconde
INTRODUCTION
STATISTICAL
ANALYSES FOR TEST
BIAS
Examples
SAT
IQ Test
Philippine Case
Content-Related Biases
Biased items
Approaches used:
Identify types of items that discriminate against groups to avoid in the future
Attitude:
There should be continuous scrutiny of test content to purge items that have potential
to be biased
Different Intercepts
Different Slopes
SUGGESTIONS FOR
SOLUTIONS
Unqualified Individualism
2.
Quotas
3.
Qualified Individualism
Unqualified Individualism
Fair: It finds the best candidates for the job or for admission
to school regardless of biases.
Quota
Fairshare process
Qualified Individualism
Regression
2.
Constant Ratio
3.
Cole/Darlington
4.
Quota
Regression
(Cleary, 1968)
Constant Ratio
Thorndike (1971)
Cole/Darlington
Cole (1973), Darlington (1971, 1978)
Quota