TY  - GEN
T1  - Does Socioeconomic  Status Explain tha Relationship Between Admissions Tests and Post-Secondary Academic Performance?  [article].
A1  - Sackett, Paul R.
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312519068
AB  - Critic of educational admissions tests assert that tests measure nothing more than socioeconomic status (SES) and that their apparent validity in predicting academic performance is an artifact of SES. The authors examined multiple larte data sets containing data on admissions and related tests. SES  and grades showing that (a) SES is related to tests scores (r = 42 among the population of SAT takers), (b) tets scores are predictive of academic performance, and (c) statistically controlling for SES reduces the estimated test-grade correlation from r = 47 to r = .44. Thus, the vast majority of the test-academic performance relationship was independent of SES. The authors concluded that test-grade relationship is not an artifactof common influences of SES on both test scores and grades. --(from the author)
KW  - Socioeconomic status.
KW  - Academic performance.
KW  - Admission testing.
KW  - Test validity.
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