Psy117 chapter 12 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSY117. Chapter 12 (Standardized Tests in Education, Civil Service and the Military) Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT) - ANS-- designed for poor readers, poorly educated people, and people for whom English is a second language - item selection is superior in terms of selecting minority, culturally diverse, and economically disadvantaged children - authors took special steps to eliminate irrelevant sources of test difficulty (esp. About cultural bias) - statistical tests were then used to ...