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Blits, Jan H. and Linda S. Gottfredson. “The Political Science of Employment Testing,”The Public Interest, Winter 1990.
Gottfredson, Linda S. and James C. Sharf (eds.). “Fairness in Employment Testing,”Journal of Vocational Behavior 33:3 (1988).
Hartigan, John A. and Alexandra K. Wigdor (eds.).Fairness in Employment Testing: Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989.
Hartigan, John A. and Alexandra K. Wigdor (eds.).Interim Report: Within-Group Scoring of the General Apptitude Test Battery. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1988.
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Jan H. Blits teaches in the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware and was previously Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy. He has published two books and numerous articles on educational and political philosophy.
She has published in personnel psychology, counseling psychology, and sociology on issues of testing, inequality, and fairness in education and employment.
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Blits, J.H., Gottfredson, L.S. Equality or lasting inequality?. Society 27, 4–11 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695532
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