." - Conan O'Brien on Taking the SATs. ... Because it's the SAT season! ... Wealthier parents can provide private tutoring, classes and study materials and so can wealthier school districts. ... Studies state that ELL students do not perform as great as the native speakers on the Critical reading and Writing part of the test. ... Hence, SATs should be eliminated from the college process....
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...
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...
"Getting good grades in school, taking challenging classes, being in hundreds of clubs, working and doing hours of community service as well as taking the ACT and the SAT simply isn't enough," says Tom Brown an admission director at Harvard College. ... The new standardized test comes with reading, math, english, writing, science, and social studies. ... The newest part of the ACTT is the social studies section. ...
It seemed to me that all the schools, teachers, and students were all focused on preparing for the standardized tests; such as SAT's or the Regents in New York State, and not focusing on the art of learning, creativity and so on. ... The students spend so much time studying and preparing for the tests that the students become more about numbers than ideas, knowledge, and how to think or apply what they learn. ...
Each year the ACT, American College Testing, has 1,666,017 students take the test and 1,664,479 students took the SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, since the ACTs inception in 2011. ... There are many different types of standardized tests, the most common are SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, and ACT, American College Testing. ... Many studies have shown that the more money the student has access to the more likely they are score higher because they can pay for higher quality tutors and more advanced computers calculators and other supplies. ...
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...
