Abstract
Questions of test fairness are dependent upon the specific use of the test. The use of tests with which this paper is concerned is the prediction of a specific criterion. This obviously is only one of many ways in which tests are used, but it is one of the uses which has considerable practical importance where tests are used in selection, placement, or guidance situations. Discussions of test fairness for purposes of prediction are sometimes clouded by questions regarding the etiology of test performance. In the words of Anne Anastasi (1961),
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Test (biology)Selection (genetic algorithm)PsychologyComputer scienceMachine learning
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- 43
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- 139-161
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Robert L. Linn
(1973).
Fair Test Use in Selection.
Review of Educational Research
, 43
(2)
, 139-161.
https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543043002139
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- 10.3102/00346543043002139