48 black and 48 white elementary and middle school students were administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to assess the effect of examiner race on individual intelligence test scores. Three black and 3 white female examiners were employed. Analysis of variance procedures revealed no significant effects for the examiner race nor any interactions of examiner race X's student race at either grade level.
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