Biased Testing
8 April 2011 at 1:54 pm Lasse 2 comments
| Lasse Lien |
The Onion asks whether tests are biased against students who don’t give a sh…. — and whether in fact the whole education system is catering to those who don’t think education is a boring waste of time.
Now that I think of it I have on several occasions noted that lazy, uninterested students tend to do systematically worse on my tests. So I am part of this unreasonable and unjust system, and I expect many O&M readers are too.
I think we should all reflect on this over the weekend.
Thanks to Eirik S. Knudsen for the pointer.
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Milton Recht | 8 April 2011 at 4:16 pm
See, “Identification Problems in Personality Psychology” by
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, March 2011.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w16917
From abstract: “substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are explained by personality variables.”
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