Does SAT Score Choice help or hurt?
Posted by Ology Staff , Jan, 2009 @ 14:35.jpeg/800px-Test_(student_assessment).jpeg)
The SAT Score Choice system, which allows students to pick and choose which scores are reported to colleges, is supposed to reduce stress in applicants.
But it will inevitably make the test a worse predictor of college success, and a better predictor of which students have the time, money, and support structure to score above their intelligence. As more and more schools are questioning the worth of SAT scores in their admissions decisions, why would the College Board move to make the test even more susceptible to coaching, trigs, and gimmicks?
Because the basic structure and the underlying assumptions of the test have changed little–even after the shakeup of three years ago–the SAT has always been less about your mathematical and verbal aptitudes and more about your knowledge of the SAT. Now you can further refine your test-taking strategy. If you’re a math whiz, focus all your attention on the quant sections your first time through the test. Then spend three or four tests waiting for a statistical aberration on the verbal section.
Hell, if you’ve got the cash, try it once through using the tried-and-tested “spell your name on the Scantron” method.
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rodlian says – reply to this
Thanks to NCLB Act, we can be seeing more and more standardized testing across the board. It’s absurd, offensive, and the reason why many educators are simply leaving primary and secondary education positions. No one wants to deal with that nonsense. Hopefully B-Rock can actually get on the soap box and talk about something useful like the education of America’s youth, and not how much free money we’re all getting. …For some reason I feel confused and upset.
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