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L.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>Back in my day (did we have days back then?) I recall
>talk of test questions on the SAT. That is, these questions
>were not counted; they were being tested for (I presume)
>some sort of statistical validity.
>
>Does anyone have any statistical insight into the SAT question
>selection process. Does anyone have a specific lead? I can
>find virtually nothing.
I remember reading a good book about the inner operation of ETS
(administers the SATs), with some bits about the "test" questions
you refer to, but I can't quite remember the title. I've searched
the catalog of my old library, and this _may_ be it:
Lemann, Nicholas.
The big test : the secret history of the American meritocracy
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
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