Sentences with phrase «bias against testing»

Even some places where recent developments could lend themselves to a reporter's bias against testing don't always produce the expected «spin.»

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The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

The FA needs to put every referee through a polygraph test to know if they have deep roots for or against certain teams to completely avoid bias and corruption for starters.

Starting in the 1990s, Simpson led the charge in a federal lawsuit against the state that asserted the civil service test was biased against black and Hispanic state workers.

Gifted education programs have long been subject to criticism that their selection criteria, which often rely on IQ testing and other measures of cognitive ability, are biased against students of color and poor children.

But Hyde says it's good news, because it means the test isn't biased against girls.

After checking for normality using the Shapiro - Wilk test, one - sample t - tests were conducted to compare the overall mean sensitivity against chance - level (0.5), and mean bias against 0, as well as paired t - tests to compare mean sensitivity and bias for the two LEVELS OF EMBEDDING separately.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Our resulting four - category classifications might be biasing our findings against the true power of test score results to predict attainment results, as it is mathematically more difficult perfectly to match one of four outcome categories than it is to match one of three.

SAT and ACT exams, the most commonly used college - admissions tests, are biased against minority students and provide a poor indicator of success in college, said Jeffrey I. Johnson, the national youth - councils coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

We also know that standardized tests are systematically biased against low SES and disadvantaged students, and therefore, they are not a valid or appropriate sole or primary criterion as currently configured.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

Concerning the so - called «achievement gap», why don't we create a test that is biased in favor of urban populations instead of one biased against them, and see how suburban students score.

The basic skills tests required for entry into teacher preparation in the state — only a small part of the selectivity measures described above — have recently come under fire for being biased against African American and Latino test takers, as their passage rates are significantly lower than those of white test takers.

Field testing provides valuable information about test items, such as how difficult each item is, how many students select each specific answer choice, and which items might be biased in favor of or against certain groups.

Many researchers worry that I.Q. tests are biased against low - income and nonwhite children, and some recommend a more holistic approach that includes teacher referrals.

We also recognized the bias of standardized tests against low - income students, and the negative influence of standardized testing on education.

During our follow - up conversations with districts, we found cases where teacher recommendations are biased against high - achieving minority students; we also found cases where teacher recommendations are advancing minority students who do not test well on standardized tests.

The drawback of objective measures, such as test scores, is that they may be biased against students who are not good test takers, as well as against low - income and / or minority students, who tend to have lower scores that do not reflect actual knowledge or predict future success (Steele 1997; Rothstein 2004; Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005; Madaus and Clarke 2001).

Standardized tests tend, to varying degrees, to be culturally and linguistically biased against English language learners and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

After making sure the tests are not biased against specific ethnic groups or genders, testing experts draft an exam with a mix of easy and hard questions.

Let's explore why Mr. Nielsen's test is biased against the Kindle and see what interesting observations we can make.

Cabral believes that too many dogs fail behavioral assessment because the tests and testers are biased against aggressive breeds.

There is as much, if not more, bias against Jindos as Pit Bulls in most shelters — especially the CA county shelters — where Jindos and several other breeds (Pit Bulls, Akitas, GSDs and more) can not be adopted by the public or a rescue until the county conducts a temperament test.

We observe a cooling trend from 1 to 1800 ce that is robust against explicit tests for potential biases in the reconstructions.

Variance and bias due to systematic error only show up when the experimental instrument is tested against a precision instrument that isn't subject to, e.g., uncontrolled variables.

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Studies need to employ multi-group confirmatory factor analyses and differential item functioning to test whether measurement models are equivalent across subgroups (e.g., gender) and whether individual items or scales are biased against certain subgroups.