This study investigates to what extent testing that occurs under the No Child Left Behind Act, is biased against any one ethnicity or economic class of people. What role if any does the socioeconomic class of the participants play on the potential subsequent claims of bias?
Hypotheses and Rationale
According to the study, the ethnicity and socioeconomic class of each student both serve as independent variables while the perceived test bias or absence thereof serves as the dependent variable. It is hypothesized that there is a significant relationship between the ethnicity of the students and their capability to perform well on the Texas TEKS standardized test.