COMPARABILITY OF GATB SCORES FOR IMMIGRANTS AND MAJORITY GROUP MEMBERS - SOME DUTCH FINDINGS

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.