Correcting the SAT's ethnic and social-class bias: A method for reestimating SAT scores

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-43

  Freedle, Roy O ^a  

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EID: 0037362343     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.73.1.8465k88616hn4757     Document Type: Article

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