Racial bias in testing.

By Christopher Jencks. 1998

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An Aptitude Perspective on Talent: Implications for Identification of Academically Gifted Minority Students (2005, background): “That this is not the case is widely accepted by measurement professionals (Jencks, 1998).”
Early Literacy Skills in African–American Children: Research Considerations (2001, background): “Jencks (1998) appropriately noted that the poor performance of African-American children cannot be attributed entirely to bias in testing.”
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) Psychometric Report for the Third Grade (2005, background): “Jencks, C. (1998). Racial Bias in Testing.”
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 16256. (2010, unknown): “[68] Jencks, Christopher (1998), “Racial Bias in Testing”, in: Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, eds.”
The role of family socioeconomic resources in the black-white test score gap among young children (2006, background): “The potential for tests to be biased has long been recognized, with methods of administration, content and test conditions all being potential sources of discrepancies in both the size and explanation of the gap (Burchinal & Cryer, 2003; Helms, 1992; Jencks, 1998; Rock & Stenner, 2005; Suzuki & Vale”
Decreasing the SES math achievement gap: Initial math proficiency and home learning environments (2015, methodology): “Five, although the ECLS-K study followed systematic procedures to design, construct, and study the psychometric characteristics of the cognitive assessments (see Rock & Pollack, 2002), standardized assessments are not necessarily free of cultural and racial/ethnic biases (Jencks, 1998; see also Stee”
Would Smaller Classes Help Close the Black-White Achievement Gap? (2001, background): “Although part of this gap may result from racial biases in features of achievement tests, Jencks (1998) provides evidence suggesting that, at least in part, racial test score gaps reflect real differences in skills.”
Everyone’s Doing It, But What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? (2007, background): “17 The SAT test, for example, tends to over-predict the academic performance for black college students (Jencks 1998), empirical evidence dating from the Coleman Report (Coleman 1966) tends to find that teacher quality has a larger impact on lower-achieving students than on those who are higher-achi”
Who Will Succeed in College? When The SAT Predicts Black Students' Performance (2002, result): “Jencks (1998) comes to a similar conclusion: that test scores have a moderate correlation with grades and that test scores predict a little better for Whites than for Blacks.”
High-Stakes Testing and Students: Stopping or Perpetuating a Cycle of Failure? (2003, background): “As Jencks (1998) argues, test score differences between Whites”
The "Receivement Gap": School Tracking Policies and the Fallacy of the "Achievement Gap" (2009, background): “…landmark collection of essays, which covers such possible contributions to the gap as "stereotype threat" (Steele & Aronson, 1998) and the burdens of "acting White" (Cook & Ludwig, 1998) to racial bias (Jencks, 1998) and family background (Phillips, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, Klebanov, & Crane, 1998).”
Race, Gender, and Teacher Testing: How Informative a Tool Is Teacher Licensure Testing? (2010, background): “This may arise for a number of reasons, such as tests having a cultural bias in either direction, where test takers are evaluated on knowledge that is more prevalent in one group than the other and not necessarily related to job performance (Jencks, 1998).”