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). ... She easily paints a picture of females dedicating more time to there studies and school preparation which in turn leads to a higher level of success. ... A journal written by Debra Viadero discusses a study done on high-stakes testing by a...

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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. ... However, results from two studies indicate comparable mean standard scores between the PPVT-R and McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. ... Studies show that those c...

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This is a fact shown in resent studies that while only 35% of college graduates in 1960 were women, now 54% of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 are female. ... Those that do not support affirmative action believe that it is "reverse discrimination", claiming that a white applicant with higher SAT's and a higher G.P.A., who is rejected in favor of a minority applicant with lower scores, is being discriminated against [Alm03]. ... Studies have shown that affirmative action harms Historically Black Colleges and Universities and produces a low minority retention rate[...

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Nichols, Glass, and Berliner's (2012) study about the NAEP test scores in reading and math pre- and post-NCLB concluded that students were making greater gains in math before NCLB legislation than after it; reading achievement has been unchanged pre- and post-NCLB. Scores from the two college entrance exams, the SAT and ACT, actually declined from 2006 to 2010 (as cited in Onosko, 2011), so skills needed to enter higher education have not improved despite standardized testing programs. ... The narrowing of the achievement gap between higher and lower income groups has not occurred accordi...

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