R E Millsap, W Meredith
Statistical Evidence in Salary Discrimination Studies: Nonparametric Inferential Conditions
Multivariate behavioral research
performance students lowstakes testing situations concern focus recent research however researchers examined effect stakes performance able compare lowstakes performance truly highstakes performance students results comparison reported article gre test takers volunteered take additional lowstakes test either verbal quantitative reasoning part research study immediately following operational highstakes test analyses performance high lowstakes situations revealed level effort lowstakes situation measured amount time task strongly predicted stakes effect performance difference test scores low highstakes situations moreover stakes effect virtually disappeared participants spent least onethird allotted time lowstakes situation group test takers 80 total sample correlations low highstakes scores approached upper bound possible considering reliability test