The NAS Report Regarding Correction of Test Bias in the General

question 170

Multiple Choice

The NAS report regarding correction of test bias in the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) concluded that

• A) more effort would be necessary to completely eliminate the halo effect in test scoring.
• B) raw scores had to be converted into interpretable standard scores.
• C) test coefficients were too low to be acceptable criterion-related validity evidence.
• D) nothing had to be changed in the practice of scoring the tests.

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Definitions:

Heredity

The transmission of genetic information from parent to offspring.

Pleiotropy

A genetic phenomenon where a single gene influences multiple phenotypic traits.

Polygenic Inheritance

A mode of inheritance where traits are influenced by multiple genes at different loci, leading to a continuous range of possible phenotypes.

Incomplete Dominance

A genetic scenario in which one allele does not completely dominate another allele, leading to a phenotype that is a blend of the two alleles.