TY - JOUR
AU - Linn, Robert L.
AB - Robert L. Linn Educational Testing Service Questions of test fairness are depend­ ent 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), A common misuse of psychological tests arises from the confusion of measurement with etiology. No test can eliminate causality. Nor can a test score, however derived, reveal the origin of the behavior it reflects. If certain environmental factors influence behavior, they will also influence those samples of behavior covered by tests. When we use tests to compare different groups, the only question the tests can answer directly is: "How do these groups differ under existing cultural conditions?" This limitation of tests may appear so obvious as t o be trite. But it needs to be made explicit because it is still 
TI - Fair Test Use in Selection1
JF - Review of Educational Research
DO - 10.3102/00346543043002139
DA - 1973-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/fair-test-use-in-selection1-EIYR0A7IPN
SP - 139
EP - 161
VL - 43
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -