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Rethinking the Sat: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions » Read Now
by Rebecca Zwick. 368 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admissions, including the president of the largest public university system in the U.S., as well as the presidents of the two companies that sponsor college admissions...
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Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admissions, including the president of the largest public university system in the U.S., as well as the presidents of the two companies that sponsor college admissions tests in the U.S. The contributors address not only the pros and cons of the SAT itself, but the broader question of who should go to college in the twenty-first century.
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The SAT Elite, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Gerald W. Bracey. 3 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...RESEARCH - The SAT Elite by Gerald W. Bracey THE...that analysis. It concerns the size of the "SAT elite" - the group of seniors who score 650...the test-taking...
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Student Derogation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test: Biases in Perceptions and Presentations of College Board Scores, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by James A. Shepperd. 19 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) respond to this "failure" feedback. Studies...presentations of test scores. Students with lower SAT scores regarded their score...
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Training Test-Wiseness and Flawed Item Types, in Applied Measurement in Education » Read Now
by Mary Roznowski, James Bassett . 14 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...are described. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores were obtained from university admission...1989) discussed characteristics common to SAT item formats and contents that...
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Sex, Math, and SATs, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Gerald W. Bracey. 3 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...women. But they dont. Women with the same SAT scores as men get higher grades in college...grades in college mathematics courses and the SAT-M scores of 47,000 men and...
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War on the SAT: With Affirmative Action Rolled Back, University of California President Richard Atkinson Wants to Ditch the Controversial Standardized Test as the Be-All, End-All of College Admissions, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Peter Schrag. 4 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...War on the SAT: with affirmative action rolled back, University...window to glass. The questions come from the SAT I exam that 1.3 million college...
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What Makes Students Succeed or Fail? The Voices of Developmental College Students, in Journal of College Reading and Learning » Read Now
by Joann Yaworski, Rose-Marie Weber, Nabil Ibrahim. 27 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...grades and low Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. After several semesters in college...underachieving students who started college with low SAT scores and low high...
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The Black-White Test Score Gap (Chap. 13 "Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores, Race, and Academic Performance in Selective Colleges and Universities") » Read Now
by Christopher Jencks, Meredith Phillips. 524 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

The test score gap between blacks and whites--on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and...
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The test score gap between blacks and whites--on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips argue that eliminating the disparity would dramatically reduce economic and educational inequality between blacks and whites. Indeed, they think that closing the gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy now under serious discussion. The book offers a comprehensive look at the factors that contribute to the test score gap and discusses options for substantially reducing it. Although significant attempts have been made over the past three decades to shrink the test score gap, including increased funding for predominantly black schools, desegregation of southern schools, and programs to alleviate poverty, the median black American still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. The book brings together recent evidence on some of the most controversial and puzzling aspects of the test score debate, including the role of test bias, heredity, and family background. It also looks at how and why the gap has changed over the past generation, reviews the educational, psychological, and cultural explanations for the gap, and analyzes its educational and economic consequences. The authors demonstrate that traditional explanations account for only a small part of the black-white test score gap. They argue that this is partly because traditional explanations have put too much emphasis on racial disparities in economic resources, both inhomes and in schools, and on demographic factors like family structure. They say that successful theories will put more emphasis on psychological and cultural factors, such as the way black and white parents teach their chi
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Correlates of the SAT in Minority Engineering Students: An Exploratory Study, in Journal of Higher Education » Read Now
by Jacqueline Fleming, Carole Morning. 20 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Correlates of the SAT in minority engineering students: an exploratory...minority engineering students. Although the SAT is designed to predict grade point average...test...
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Accuracy as a Frill, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Gerald W. Bracey. 2 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...committee, chaired by former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, to examine what was at the time a 14-year decline in SAT scores. Total SAT scores had fallen 70 points since...
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Record-Level SATs: Course Related, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Gerald W. Bracey. 2 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...In various places I have pointed out that the proportion of students scoring above 650 on the mathematics section of the SAT reached an all-time high in 1993 and that the...
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Institutionalizing Literacy: The Historical Role of College Entrance Examinations in English » Read Now
by Mary Trachsel. 210 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test SAT . I do this because although I realize that the verbal SAT is by no means the only instrument used to...education from...
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The College Board, Its First Fifty Years (1950) (Chap. 5 "Aptitude Tests") » Read Now
by Claude M. Fuess. 220 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...THE COLLEGE BOARD THE COLLEGE BOARD ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS By Claude M. Fuess NEW YORK Columbia University Press 1950 Copyright 1950 Columbia...