Jt. Nijenhuis et H. Vanderflier, COMPARABILITY OF GATB SCORES FOR IMMIGRANTS AND MAJORITY GROUP MEMBERS - SOME DUTCH FINDINGS, Journal of applied psychology, 82(5), 1997, pp. 675-687
The central question addressed in this article is whether the test sco
res of immigrants and majority group members reflect the same dimensio
ns. Use was made of scores on the Dutch version of the General Aptitud
e Test Battery on first-generation immigrants (N = 1,322) and majority
group members (N = 806) who applied for blue-collar jobs in the Nethe
rlands. The group differences with respect to the construct validity w
ere small. Spearman's hypothesis that general intelligence is the pred
ominant factor determining the size of the differences between 2 group
s was borne out significantly. The test can be put to good use for com
parisons within culturally homogeneous groups of non-native-born, non-
native-language minorities. Use of the test for comparisons between im
migrant and majority group members, however, requires supplementary re
search.