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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 692613" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>That study is from the College Board, which happens to be the company that is in charge of the SAT. That report was written shortly(a few years) after the SAT was criticized as being biased by a former employee of ETS, the company that administers SAT tests. He submitted a report to ETS supervisors with statistical analysis eleven times that suggested socioeconomic and cultural bias on the test. After he left ETS he submitted a summary report to the Harvard Educational Review which was published. College Board keeps all of the raw data as proprietary information and most of the testing questions as an attempt to prevent cheating. It is incredibly difficult for anyone outside of ETS or College Board to get access to enough information to determine if there is (or isn't) any bias built into the test.</p><p></p><p>After the report was published, the SAT removed the analogy questions. There was one that was published widely: runner:marathon -- correct answer -- oarsman:regatta: that was questioned because upper income students are likely to have access to crew/yachting events while lower income students are unlikely to have access to such events. The upper income students would understand the words from life experience, while the lower income students would have to have literary access to those words. Another that wasn't published as much was related to colors. I don't remember the sample, but it was something like sky is to blue as lemon is to: answer yellow. Hispanic students chose green at a very high rate. That was related to cultural issues as some Hispanic communities regularly eat green lemons. So, it has been proven that there have been socioeconomic and cultural issues in the SAT before.</p><p></p><p>TLDR: The link you posted was to a "study" by the company that makes the SAT test. They do not publish and do not allow access to raw data and/or full access to questions on the test. I don't know if there is current bias built into the test. I do know that there has been at least some level of bias before and I don't trust College Board to self-diagnose and regulate themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 692613, member: 2426"] That study is from the College Board, which happens to be the company that is in charge of the SAT. That report was written shortly(a few years) after the SAT was criticized as being biased by a former employee of ETS, the company that administers SAT tests. He submitted a report to ETS supervisors with statistical analysis eleven times that suggested socioeconomic and cultural bias on the test. After he left ETS he submitted a summary report to the Harvard Educational Review which was published. College Board keeps all of the raw data as proprietary information and most of the testing questions as an attempt to prevent cheating. It is incredibly difficult for anyone outside of ETS or College Board to get access to enough information to determine if there is (or isn't) any bias built into the test. After the report was published, the SAT removed the analogy questions. There was one that was published widely: runner:marathon -- correct answer -- oarsman:regatta: that was questioned because upper income students are likely to have access to crew/yachting events while lower income students are unlikely to have access to such events. The upper income students would understand the words from life experience, while the lower income students would have to have literary access to those words. Another that wasn't published as much was related to colors. I don't remember the sample, but it was something like sky is to blue as lemon is to: answer yellow. Hispanic students chose green at a very high rate. That was related to cultural issues as some Hispanic communities regularly eat green lemons. So, it has been proven that there have been socioeconomic and cultural issues in the SAT before. TLDR: The link you posted was to a "study" by the company that makes the SAT test. They do not publish and do not allow access to raw data and/or full access to questions on the test. I don't know if there is current bias built into the test. I do know that there has been at least some level of bias before and I don't trust College Board to self-diagnose and regulate themselves. [/QUOTE]
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