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. ... In 1933, President of Harvard University James Bryant Conant, implemented a new scholarship program for academically gifted males. ... It is outlined in the Code of Virginia, and it states that they are "To promote the development of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in Virginia"(SCHEV, p4-5). ... Among high school seniors who entered college in the fall of 1999, the African ...

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Some states use SAT minimum score requirements for students wishing to be eligible for federal grants and scholarships. ... The SAT score simply measures your ability to take the SAT test, theoretically, a skill that can be learned through coaching class. ... Hundreds of the College Board's own statistics illustrate a nearly linear association between the family income and SAT scores. ... As it is now, there is too much emphasis placed on SAT scores. It is this overemphasis that Atkinson warns "is compromising our educational system." ...

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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. ... Second, studies have been done that show that high school grades and SAT scores combined are good predictors of how well a student will do in their first semester at college. ... 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. However, the College Board has done studies on this, and the results have shown that high school grades and SA...

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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, however, with the state of Georgia being ranked 50th for average SAT scores. ... This, to me, seems almost absurd when you think that SAT scores are used by colleges for admissions. ... but a system of distributing funds should take into account a families annual income. ... A scholarship should be given based on a grade of a continuous scale, and if Georgia as a state wants to rise from the bottom of the SAT, University entrance scores, ...

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Populary called affirmative action, in reality, it is an unfair racist quota system. ... However, they soon turned into a quota system that turns away capable individuals and business owners. ... Schools, at the very top like Harvard or stanford, ecome institutions able to offer the very best black applicants a range of scholarships and other monies, soak up a huge portion of the relatively few blacks who score in the top range of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). ... Those students had an average SAT score of 952 compared to the national average of 900 among all black students. However...

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After investigating she found out that African Americans and ethnic minorities who had lower overall admissions scores were admitted. The admissions procedure is based on a points system. ... So when Barbara Gutter applied for admissions she started with a score of zero points and a Hispanic student started with a score of 20 points. ... How can it be justly rewarding when underrepresented minorities receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation score, of up to 150 points, whereas a perfect SAT score only adds 12 points. ... I happen to agree with Professor Margaret Mon...

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For every person somehow involved with this country's educational system, April is synonymous with standardized testing. ... Many state boards of education use these results to determine state funding in addition to any new educational reforms and policies. ... The colleges" nice way of stating this minimum is as the average scores of their attending students. ... "Studies from the College Board show that people taking the SAT will, on average, score an extra 30 points for every $10,000 in their parents income" (10 Reasons). ... While testing may be a way to improve the system, many o...

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Every week new controversies arise. ... An example of this is shown through a sample of thirty-two ACT and thirteen SAT scores from Tennessee football players who entered school from 1995-1999. The average ACT scores were 17.75 out of 36, while the average of the SAT scores was 845 out of 1,600. University of Tennessee statistics say that the average incoming freshman in 2000 scored 23.9 on the ACT or 1,113 on the SAT. ... With the right changes in the system, universities will be prevented from "diluting the value of a degree by pushing athletes through the system to keep them eligible" ("New...

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The SAT designers therefore tried to create a test that was relatively sensitive to whether a student had attend a strong or weak secondary school. ... The content on the SAT is bias. ... The score is obtained by subtracting errors from total ceiling score. ... Psychologists say that a test suffers from predictions bias when blacks and whites with the same score on the test- the SAT, for example perform difficulty on the outcome that they are trying to predict college grades, for example (White, 1992). ... Casserly, the executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group for urban s...

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The problem is not in the tests, it lies somewhere else in the public education systems. ... Colleges and Universities utilize the ACT's and/or the SAT's as the most reliable and unbiased source to compare applicants. ... Tests scores show that there is a divide in performance based on socioeconomic class. Normally, upper class students score higher than lower class. ... The government, colleges, and because students are assessed equally through the use of ACTs and SATs causes reason for standardized testing to stay obligated for students to take. ...

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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. ... When 6-foot-9-inch basketball star Kevin Ross played for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, he didn't even know the score (Charen 420). Literally he wasn't able to interpret the score of the game, all he knew was whether his team was winning or losing. ... There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted into universities due to that fact...

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However, who should we hold accountable for the poor test scores of children in America? ... Standardized Minds discusses some biases of standardized tests like the SAT. Perhaps the most talked about is the bias of the SAT against low-income and/or minority students. ... 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. ... The money that would have been spent on tests, proctors, preparation, etc. could be used to build new schools, or pay for transportation...

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This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. ... In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. ... The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. ... Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. ... In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. ... The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. ... Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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The result, he engineered a set of high scores (Moore 258). Moore goes on to explain that as a result of Crew's brilliance as an administrator he was offered a lucrative deal with the New York city school system (258). ... It is not just administrators that try to manipulate these scores. Parents manipulate these scores as well. ... The child is given extra time, usually 90 minutes, to take the SAT (256). ...

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In order to create a system that is fair the government needs to do additional research in improving its present situation. ... Some newer ideas favor of the 10 Percent Plan. ... Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." ...

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Rachel scored high enough test scores to gain admittance to Harvard. On average unschoolers test 80 points higher on their SAT's than students who attend public school (Cloud and Morse, 2001, 47-54). ... Statistics show that unschoolers typically receive higher scores on SAT tests and many of them have more patient social skills. ... A regulation set in New York requires all unschoolers to learn fire safety and fire drill procedures. ... Many children who are unschooled surpass the educational abilities and test scores of public schools. ...

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The problem-solving skills that one gains from these classes, therefore, can be translated and used in the workforce, which ultimately benefits society through the discoveries of new social and cultural innovations. ... Conflict theory, however, believes that the "byproduct" to the presumably beneficial tracking system simply helps perpetuate social inequality based on social class, and race/ethnicity. ...

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I have heard of minorities who where accepted to other state universities that require better high school GPA's along with better SAT scores than LHU. ... With more lenient test scores in high school, there is less emphasis placed on SAT's, but high schools may distribute grades in accordance with what an individual needs to go to college. ... The system that we have for letting individuals pursue their academic goals is centered on issues that should not even be discussed. ... Without the extra money coming in, minority groups started on the decline of what there current levels ...

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Instead of learning new things, we were too focused on preparing for the End-of-Instruction test and what to expect on it. ... I sat down with a former teacher of mine name Mrs. ... I've been out for a while but just being still apart of the school system; I see a big difference in the way teachers teach from when I was being taught.... "These days, if a school's standardized test scores are high, people think the school's staff is effective. If a school's standardized test scores are low, they see the school's staff as ineffective. ...

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For instance, high school grades and SAT scores could be compared, as well as college applications and attendance. ... Comparing the sources I found, the most useful was the volume of essays Rural Education and Training in the New Economy. ... Each chapter added a new dimension to the question, and provided graphs and comparison charts, to make the data more digestible. ... West Haven added a new dimension to the paper, but a relatively small one. ... An ideal source of information for my paper would come from local sources: the state of the school systems in Madison county, the average te...

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Next to my table, it sat the network engineer called Steven who took care of our computer network. ... He sat in front of our computers to run some scripts to fix the errors. ... To finish the certificate, we had to pass six the courses with high score. The first course was a theory course and the concepts were so new, which I had not learned in my college at all. In my first exam of the first course, I only got half of the passing score. ...

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Homeschooling is definitely not a new practice. ... Most certainly the most convencing reason to home school is just the raw data on academic scores for the home schooled. ... By 12th grade, home-schooled students scored way up in the 92nd percentile in reading. Recent statistics from the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, though less impressive than Rudner's, are still solid. In 1999, students who identified themselves as home schooled scored an average of 1083 on the SAT, 67 points above the national average, and 22.7 on the ACT, compared with the national average of 21. ...

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This brings us to discuss the quality of our education system when affirmative action is used in admissions policies. ... Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. ... A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is to raise academic standards and maintain a high quality curriculum and instructional program at the elementary and secondary school levels. ... The proportions of ki...

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