Defense of Tests Prevents Objective Consideration of Validity and Fairness/Responses to Issues Raised About Validity, Bias, and Fairness in High-Stakes Testing

Helms comments on the study of Sackett, Borneman, and Connelly by stating that the The authors erroneously interpreted standardized mean differences in CAKS test scores between Black and White test takers, for example, as if they were validity evidence, but they are not unless the intended purpose of tests is to disadvantage Blacks relative to Whites.