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标题：The Role of Non-Cognitive Factors in the SAT Remains Unclear: A Commentary on Hannon (2019)
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作者：Andrew R. A. Conway ; Han Hao
期刊名称：Journal of Intelligence
电子版ISSN：2079-3200
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：15-21
DOI：10.3390/jintelligence8020015
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：In the current issue of the Journal of Intelligence, Hannon (2019) reports a novel and intriguing pattern of results that could be interpreted as evidence that the SAT is biased against Hispanic students. Specifically, Hannon’s analyses suggest that non-cognitive factors, such as test anxiety, contribute to SAT performance and the impact of test anxiety on the SAT is stronger among Hispanic students than European-American students. Importantly, this pattern of results was observed after controlling for individual differences in cognitive abilities. We argue that there are multiple issues with Hannon’s investigation and interpretation. For instance, Hannon did not include an adequate number or variety of measures of cognitive ability. In addition, the measure of test anxiety was a retrospective self-report survey on evaluated anxiety rather than a direct measure of situational test anxiety associated with the SAT. Based on these and other observations, we conclude that Hannon’s current results do not provide sufficient evidence to suggest that non-cognitive factors play a significant role in the SAT or that they impact European-American and Hispanic students differently.
关键词：intelligence; cognitive ability; SAT intelligence ; cognitive ability ; SAT