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Robertson, David W.; Montague, William E. – 1976
In order to look for evidence of possible racial bias in six of the Navy tests for the Enlisted Advancement System, statistical data for a group of black personnel were compared with data for a selected matching group of whites. The first step was to compute item difficulty indices (the percent passing each item) for the black group, for the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Enlisted Personnel
