... the Virginia State of Assessment Plan in local colleges, and how it ranks within different cultures and genders. The history of the SAT has origins that date back to the First World War. The original test, known as the "Army Alpha" was an IQ test administered by the United States Army to evaluate the intelligence of new recruits. Following the war, the Army Alpha was ... adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. In 1933, President of Harvar...

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... . However, he needed a way to identify these people so he could bring them to Harvard to get that education. As a step in that direction, Conant instituted a new scholarship program for boys who were academically gifted and who did not come from the elite Eastern boarding schools where Harvard had always received its students. However, Conan needed a way to evaluate these students. He ... army's IQ testing team during World War I. Eventually, Carl Brigham adapted the army's IQ test for use in college admissions and Chauncey reported back to Conant about the new SAT test. Conant wanted as...

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... world has to offer menot stuck in a library for hours to study for a test that doesn't benefit me in any way. SAT scores help colleges identify students that they feel have potential to do well at that particular college. A student's GPA, essay and recommendations are way better indicators of how well I'll do in college. The recommendations are especially useful because they are the ... SATs is the nature of the essay. Quantity is definitely more important than quality in regards to this essay. In "The Story Behind the SAT Overhaul" which was an article featured on the New York Times Le...

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... fulfill their aspirations. While the test was successful in creating an upper-class, it also effectuated disaccord and hostility, especially pertaining to issues of class and race. This test, though it was intended to create a NEW aristocracy, it merely created a "meritocracy" that is "neither natural nor inevitable, and it does not apportion opportunity equally or fairly" (www.the-big-test.com). When the test ... of an opportunity to excel on the test, which, in turn limits your college opportunities because SAT scores a major factor in the admissions process. On the other hand, if you...

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... to refresh my brain on certain subjects, although I have found going over certain material has made me de-motivated. I am not intrigued as much as I would be if I were learning a new topic for the first time. The remedial classes are also not good towards any credit. If I didn't have to worry about wasting a year on classes that my teachers should have ... being de-motivating, when you are placed into the classes' colleges will no longer be using the Accuplacer test or SAT's scores. "Emphasis is also placed on public high schools to identify students who are behind at an earlier point i...

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... 900 but it wasn't my score, because it was fairly low, it was just the college. Colleges lower on the level usually supply a placement exam before entering the college and determine where the student gets placed for English and math, which makes the SAT useless. But some colleges do look at the score and only go by that which leads me to my thesis that the ... the student does in school. In most cases that is true but in some it is not. My GPA was an 86 when I graduated yet I scored a 900 on the SAT. Those two scores don't correlate. If one student doesn't fit the criteria of this exam ...

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... past decade, the costs of living has increased greatly. Merit-based financial aid programs are offered to students who meet a merit requirement based on their high school GPA and sometimes their SAT or ACT scores. Students are usually eligible for state merit aid if they attend a college within their home state. Though qualified students are able to receive aid from scholarships, the U.S ... decision to go to a college 7-to-10 hours car ride away or out-of-state. Many colleges are expensive especially for low income families who can't afford to pay for tuition and are likely to borrow l...

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... . 2. Tone The tone the author uses mostly is optimistic, though the differences between coeducational and single-sex schools are not big the author attempts to elevate the results by expanding their ... including self-confidence, political and social activism, life goals, and career orientation" (Sax 2009.) The article shows an objective tone when hard facts are brought up "SAT composite scores (Verbal plus Math) ... are 43 points higher for single-sex graduates within the independent school sector, and 28 points higher for single-sex alumnae in the Catholic school sector." This researc...

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... . It is true that the gap shrinks only a little when blacks and whites families in all the same amount of schooling, income, and some wealth. The best-known test that claims to measure academic aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The SAT was developed in the 1930s to help selective colleges identify talented students from mediocre high schools who performed poorly on traditional ... Scales of Children's Abilities. Correlations ranging from .16 to .78 have been obtained from studies examining the relationship between the PPVT-R standard score equivalents and various "g factor" score...

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... bringing this accusation up, it cost her, her marriage, her stature in the university community and several friends. Yet this has not put a damper on her effort to get colleges back on the right track, that would be the educational track, not the competitive sport one. Every week new controversies arise. Recently, thirty-nine copies of University of Tennessee athlete's transcripts were released ... to the Southeastern Conference investigator Bill Sievers. There were 105 grade changes for twenty-nine, athletes and Bensel-Meyers believes that some of ... the necessary skills to succeed. ...

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... Georgia residents have to face reality and set a new bar for the free College tuition handout. The "HOPE" scholarship was set up to congratulate those that work hard in high school and give them a helping hand with the financial burden of college. The only requirements to receive free tuition and books at a public University is a "B" average, no SAT examination scores. This may have something to do ... not be counted because it is not tied into the Georgia curriculum. This, to me, seems almost absurd when you think that SAT scores are used by colleges for admissions. However, I also sha...

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... to know to pass the tests. It is a well-known fact that many states use the tests as a means to decide whether pupils pass high school. "For many students, their scores represent whether they pass or dropout, whether they receive scholarships or whether they will be retained" (10 Reasons). To many people, it just does not seem fair that the outcome ... can make or break a student's future is in the category of college admissions. A major part of a high school junior's life is dedicated to taking the SAT and ACT tests, filling out applications, visiting colleges, and keeping their finger...

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... students' lack of qualifications." Colleges and universities often admit African American and Hispanic students who are not qualified simply because they must maintain their status quo. Many of the minority students who are accepted into such institutions are under-qualified and do not succeed at the schools. For instance, the New York Times published mean SAT scores for four groups of undergraduates ... 994 These figures form the University of California-Berkeley are representative of the differences in scores between minorities and whites from students entering 26 highly prestigious ...

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... these different categories, nor should it be provided to athletes. Nowadays a substantial amount of college Athletes are given more leniencies towards the academic standards, which are expected from others. Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. Providing athletes ... Ross that are taking the places of students who are eligible to enter universities, and are rejected because they are not star athletes. There are many instances where stude...

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... shown in charts showing the performance groups of students who have taken the test. Norms show the comparison of the performance of new groups of test takers with the samples of students on whom the test was standardized. Goodwin and Driscoll (59-60) note that standardized tests have the following qualities: They provide a "systematic procedure for describing behaviors, whether in terms ... predictor of a student's intellectuality and future. "Standardized tests generally have questionable ability to predict one's academic success" (Sacks). Not all high school seniors are required to ta...

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... courts to admit its first black students on January 6, 1961. Since then, segregation has been abolished in all areas of the United States. The ending of affirmative action brings many new fears as to whether this desegregation will continue. There are fears that schools will decide to not admit minority students at all. Then the community will regress to where it ... admitting minority students who are not up to par with their counterparts. The average SAT scores were 288 points below the Berkeley average for black students admitted before the removal of affirmative action (Krauthammer ...

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... and other Eastern Europeans began to apply to universities, some of the most prestigious colleges imposed quotas limiting their numbers. Americans tried various means to eliminate the most egregious forms of discrimination. In the early part of the century, "objective" admissions tests were introduced to counteract the bias in admissions. Some educators now view admissions tests such as the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT ... other professions. Affirmative action also included financial assistance to members of minorities who could not otherwise afford to attend colleges and universitie...

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... receive jobs at places, where minorities are underrepresented. The second place,[no comma; the wh-clause is needed] where affirmative action can be enforced,[no] is in colleges and universities. Affirmative action at colleges and universities is[this is debatable; needs a qualifier] used to help admit underprivileged minorities into their institute. As an assignment in my English Composition II class , my ... was $30,000 a year or below, a commonly used (and generous) metric for "lower income". (McWhorter)[unnecessary] McWhorter opposed affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mai...

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... us how kids are learning? There is a great improvement of students with their scores but there is still a big barrier between minority student such as Latinos and blacks with white students. According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. In comparison, white student ... a test that was supposedly designed to even the playing field. Well-off students win thousands of scholarship dollars, despite their financial readiness to attend the most prestigious colleges and...

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... were athletes. In 1999 48% of admitted students are athletes, and the next highest percentage is 25 percent which are legacies. These percentages should make the population ponder on what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment ... . In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to ... football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on sch...

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... problems involved in educating minorities. There are no variables within these tests to accommodate the varied needs of individual students. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was developed in the 1920's and 1930's to determine entrance into colleges and universities but is now widely used as a barometer to measure school success (Fantini 78). Leon Botstein is also of the opinion that standardized testing ... is outdated: The use and popularity of SAT tests has done nothing to improve schooling for those populations that need it most. It has merely reinforced the ... students over a 15...

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... were athletes. In 1999 48% of admitted students are athletes, and the next highest percentage is 25 percent which are legacies. These percentages should make the population ponder on what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment ... . In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to ... football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on sch...

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... problem of past discrimination. First of all, affirmative action IS discrimination, only in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea of individualism, where the ... 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the...

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... need with "an emphasis on increased funding for poor school districts, higher achievement for poor and minority students, and new measures to hold schools accountable for their students' progress" (PBS 1). Colleges and Universities utilize the ACT's and/or the SAT's as the most reliable and unbiased source to compare applicants. These college entrance exams are highly accurate predictors when it comes ... that they have a fair chance for further education. These standardized test set the standards for all students to reach and break all boundaries; still, those that oppose this testing ...

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... escape from the life they had always known was possible. Peter Sacks notes some encouraging trends in the educational system, namely the growing number of colleges and universities who no longer require prospective students to take the SAT. Also, he discusses the notion of "authentic achievement," which assesses a child's performance rather than measuring it against a national average or comparing one child's performance ... state governments, where in California, a teacher whose students performed the best on a certain test received a cash bonus of twenty-five thousand dollars, while o...

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