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. ... Depending upon how high or low one scores on the SAT, and how high or low their current high school grade point average is, can play a key role in their acceptance to many of these institutions for higher learning. ... For example, in 1999 the College Board reported that the average score for college bound women wa...

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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. ... If test like Stanford Binet and the SAT emphasized domains in which blacks were usually disadvantaged, one would have reason to think there tests ere biased against blacks, no matter what their creators or distributors called them. ... 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 rep...

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The College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) declined from 1963 to 1980, with average verbal scores falling over 50 points and average mathematics scores dropping nearly 40 points. ... George Westinghouse High School in New York initiated a quality improvement process that decreased the dropout rate from 7.8 percent to 5.3 percent compared to the district average of 17.2% despite losing 21.2% of its faculty, an example of TQM applied to an urban, primarily minority school (Siegel and Byrne, 1994 pg. 16). ...

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I've developed a new appreciation for literacy that would have totally redefined my learning experience during grade school had I made this realization earlier. ... As my seven-year-old self sat around a bright blue table amongst other first graders racing to solve simple math problems of addition and subtraction in order to win pieces of candy, literacy was being instilled in my unaware brain. ... I was beginning to realize that I was completing these assignments for a greater purpose and that my grades now counted towards an accumulative grade point average and that the consequences fo...

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