Gender Bias and Fairness.
Read the article about gender bias in testing
Below you will find an excerpt from the article you just read. These are the forms that researchers claim cause gender bias in tests. Read them carefully and think about them.
* material or references that may be offensive to members of one gender,
* references to objects and ideas that are likely to be more familiar to men or to women,
* unequal representation of men and women as actors in test items or representation of members of each gender only in stereotyped roles.
Now address how each one may or may not bias the results of the test based on your own experiences in taking tests. This is only an opinion piece.
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