The Educational Testing Service (ETS) adopted the SAT I back in 1944. Its purpose was to measure pure intelligence or aptitude, as we know it today. It has since been accepted as the required test for admissions by the Virginia State of Assessment, in all local colleges and universities in Virginia. Today, the SAT I play's an important role in young high schools student's college careers. This paper will attempt to explain the history and make-up of the SAT I, as it is compared to the recent day SAT I Test. It will also elaborate on its link to 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 Harvard University James Bryant Conant, implemented a new scholarship program for academically gifted males. As an instrument to measure the intelligence of college applicants, Conant approved of the Army Alpha, (now known as the SAT I) because he felt that is measured pure intelligence regardless of the taker's high school education During the Second World War, in 1942, all pre-existing College Board admissions tests were abolished, which left the SAT to become the uniform test for college admissions. Later in 1944, ETS was chartered and the SAT was en route to becoming the standard college admissions tool for universities across the nation, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.1).
Today, the twenty-first century version of the SAT I: Reasoning Test is a three-hour verbal and mathematical exam that assesses and reflects the latest knowledge of.
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High school students nationwide are expected to take the much hated ACT or SAT. The ACT and SAT are supposed to rate students' knowledge but they fail miserably. ... They take a look at his/her low ACT or SAT score and reject them. ... Math is one of the subjects on the ACT and SAT. ... They too are discovering how faulty ACT and SAT scores can be. ...
The SAT Controversy 1) According to the video and the article, who and how was the SAT developed and for what purpose? The SAT, or as it was called in the beginning, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, had its debut in the late 1930's. ... Countless articles argue for keeping the SAT and just as many seem to argue for abolishing it. ... The SAT test was specifically designed with that in mind. ... Finally, the argument exists that since minorities tend to score lower on the SAT than whites, that alone is a very good reason to eliminate using the SAT. ...
