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Books

Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
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Rethinking the SAT:  The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions.  New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
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Research Articles:

New perspectives on the correlation of SAT scores, high school grades, and socioeconomic factors (with J. G. Green).Journal of Educational Measurement, 44, 23-45, 2007.
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College admissions testing.  Paper commissioned by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, February 2007.
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Predicting college grades and degree completion using high school grades and SAT Scores:  The role of student ethnicity and first language (with J. Sklar). American Educational Research Journal, 42, 439-464,2005.
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California and the SAT: A reanalysis of University of California admissions data (with T. Brown & J. C. Sklar). Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, Research and Occasional Papers Series, July 2004. 
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An empirical Bayes approach to Mantel-Haenszel DIF analysis (with D.
Thayer & C. Lewis).  Journal of Educational Measurement, 36, 1-28, 1999.
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Commentaries:

Casting lots for college.  Online Education Week commentary, December 2007.
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Assessment literacy:  Do educators know how to make use of the new avalanche of standardized test data?  National CrossTalk, Fall 2004, pp. 13-14.
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Picking the perfect freshman class: Balancing the academic and nonacademic goals of admissions policy. National CrossTalk, a publication of the National Higher Education Policy Center, Winter 2002, p. 13.
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Making the grade: The SAT vs. the GPA, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 29, 2001, p. A17.
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Can a thermometer cure a fever? The role of testing in educational reform. National CrossTalk, Spring 2001, p. 12.
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