MEASURING EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE OF SAT® CANDIDATES

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2002, Issue 1, 2002, Pages i-22

  Stricker, Lawrence J ^a   Rock, Donald A ^b   Pollack, Judith M ^c   Wenglinsky, Harold H ^d  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b Consultant at ETS ^*  (United States)

^c Director of Research at ETS   (United States)

^d Director of the Policy Information Center at ETS   (United States)

Author keywords

disadvantage; ethnicity; high school grades; race; SAT; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917061006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2002.tb01868.x     Document Type: Article

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