Question

Genoa Public School invited applications for a teaching position. The school wants to increase the diversity of its staff, which mostly comprised Asian-American women. After the completion of the selection tests and interviews, the school found that the top two scorers were both Asian-American women. However, it decided to hire an African-American woman, who was the third top scorer and as qualified as the top two. In this scenario, the school most likely made its selection decision through _____.?

Answer 1

A) banding

Step-by-step explanation:

In statistics or test scoring, banding is used to reduce the uncertainty of an estimate within a curve. Generally it is used by setting confidence and prediction bands, e.g. teachers grade tests with A, B, C, D or F, but not all tests with As are identical specially when data is "noisy" or abundant.

Noisy data is meaningless data, e.g. an essay might be too long because the student started repeating himself.

In this case, all three candidates were basically given an A, so any candidate chosen would qualify as ideal.

Answer 2

Banding.

Step-by-step explanation:

Banding can be described as a method in which test scores are grouped into ranges and then the scores that fall under a particular range is said to be equal.

In decision making, there is always an occurrence of different persons having similar scores.

In the scenario above, Genova public school made its selection decision on the teaching application tests through banding.