The SAT was developed in the 1930s to help selective colleges identify talented students from mediocre high schools who performed poorly on traditional achievements tests because they had not studied the relevant subject matter (Asberry 1997). ... The content on the SAT is bias. ... On the hand, Test scores continue to climb in urban school districts, some of which are making greater gains on math and reading assessments than their state averages, a report concludes. ... Gains were made in about 87 percent of all grades tested in math and 76 percent of all grades tested in reading in those ...

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The ideas of Hillocks (2002), McNeil and Valenzuela (2001), and Ravitch (2011), who are all experts on this topic, will help to establish my credibility. ... The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act helped to fund these efforts. ... Furthermore, it is thought that tests help produce a world-class education by encouraging students to reach their full potential, improving our collective productivity, and reestablishing our competitiveness on a global scale (Madaus & Russell, 2010). ... Nichols, Glass, and Berliner's (2012) study about the NAEP test scores in reading and math p...

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It is often stated that statistically females score lower on standardized tests such as the SATs and ACTs. ... At the forefront of the issue are the SATs which are often thought of as the most influential test the average student will ever take. ... On the 1998 SAT boys were 35 points ahead of girls in math and 7 points ahead in English (Sommers 32). ... "Tests are not problems; they can supply us with information to help solve problems in our schools. ... It is true that females have a lower score average on the SATs than males yet the reason is that more "at risk" females attempt the test...

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