Ethnic and sex differences in the predictive validity of the scholastic achievement test for college grades

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 2001, Pages 1099-1104

  Lynn, Richard ^a   Mau, Wei Cheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0035378401     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1099     Document Type: Article

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