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. When PPVT-R standard scores are compared to PPVT IQS, WISC-R IQS, and Stanford-Binet IQS, the mean PPVT-R scores have been significantly lower. ... 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 ...

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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. ...

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The current controversy surrounding this issue certainly is not a new one. ... This solution not only answers the educational needs of each student, but eliminates the in-fighting in the world of academia, and hopefully, increases the time spent on researching new and more effective methods of instruction. ... The idea is to teach children the written version of what they hear through the use of, 1) rhymes and alliteration, 2) comparing and contrasting the sounds of words, 3) blending and splitting syllables, 4) performing phonemic segmentation (counting the number of phonemes in a word...

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