On “State Education Statisticsâ€

Howard Wainer, Paul W. Holland, Spencer Swinton and Min Hwei Wang

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1985, vol. 10, issue 4, 293-325

Abstract: In January 1984 and again in January 1985, then Secretary of Education Bell released the table “State Education Statistics.†These tables contained a variety of education indicators, among them average SAT or ACT scores for each state. In this paper we examine these scores to see if they can be used for state-by-state comparisons to aid in the evaluation of those educational policies that vary across states. We conclude that statistical adjustment to remove the bias introduced by inappropriate aggregation and self-selection of examinees is not sufficient to insure the validity of the kinds of inferences that are desired.

Keywords: Self-selection; SAT; ACT; multivariate analysis; statistical adjustments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986010004293

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