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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

A little more than two years after the College Board released research rebutting findings concerning the board’s testing methods, a professor at Indiana University and his colleagues [futurity.org] have raised new questions in a paper about test bias [apa.org], based on the testing service’s own data.

The paper, to be published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, suggests that hundreds of thousands of college students have been affected by differential and varied predictions of their success based on how they perform on standardized tests such as the SAT and GRE.

“Our main implication is that tests do not work in the same way across colleges and universities, and we have found that hundreds of thousands of people’s predicted GPA based on SAT scores were under- or overestimated,” says lead author Herman Aguinis, a professor of organizational behavior and human resources at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

“If the prediction is not the same, that means that you can benefit or suffer based only on your ethnicity or gender, because your performance is expected to be higher or lower than it will be, which means you’re more or less likely to be offered a scholarship or you’re more or less likely to be offered admission.”

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