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Through the early 1990s and early 2000s, average scores on the SAT college entrance exam moved steadily upward. Now, for the last five years, they've been drifting back down.
A U.S. educational organization is investigating allegations that a student in South Korea leaked a copy of a standardized SAT college admissions exam to fellow students in the United States, an official said Friday.
If you're one of those students afraid standardized test scores don't paint the full picture of your potential, your options are growing. More and more colleges don't require the SAT or ACT exams.
With SAT scores at their lowest level in years, two of the country's largest test-prep course providers are pairing with video game companies for the first time, to give students another way to practice for these oft-dreaded exams.
The writing section added to the SAT has done very little to improve the exam's overall ability to predict how students will do in college, according to research released Tuesday by the test's owner.
A Texas test-preparation company accused of improperly using SAT and PSAT practice questions to help prepare its customers will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the tests' owner, including a donation of $400,000 worth of tutoring for low-income high school students.
The owner of the SAT and PSAT exams sued a Dallas-area test-preparation company Wednesday, accusing it of illegally obtaining copies of "live" test questions that it then used to help students practice.
The SAT and ACT college entrance exams each report the number of students taking their test this month is up sharply from a year ago, a likely sign more students are trying both exams to boost their admission chances.
The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn't fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of seven points — the sharpest decline in 31 years.
The College Board disclosed Wednesday that 27,000 SAT college entrance exams missed being re-scanned following the initial discovery of scoring problems, including those of another 375 students who were given incorrectly low marks.
College admissions offices scrambled Wednesday to reconsider applications after learning they had received incorrect SAT scores for about 4,000 students who took the exam last October.
Standardized tests are not the answer. I know, I graded them.While accountability in education may be an important goal, it's critical to realize how difficult that might be to pin down.
SAT scores show disparities by race, gender, family incomeAverage national SAT scores for the high school class of 2009 dropped two points compared with last year, a report out today says. And while the population of test takers was the most diverse ever, average scores vary widely by race and ethnicity.
SAT Scores Fall as Gap Widens; Asians Gain High-school students' performance last year on the SAT college-entrance exam fell slightly, and the score gap generally widened between lower-performing minority groups and white and Asian-American students, raising questions about the effectiveness of national education reform e …
We are fed a vision of hope and positivity. If the aftermath of the positivity shatters then our dreams are destroyed. We can put up where we left off but we can't move forward. To move ahead forward we need to acknowledge our mistakes and envision our future.
Teachers 'likely' to vote for SATs boycott ballot The collaboration between teachers and heads will put huge pressure on the government to scrap the tests, which teachers say put undue stress on pupils and are unpopular with parents.
SAT Changes Policy, Opening Rift With CollegesThis March, high school juniors taking the SAT will have the option of choosing which scores to send to colleges while hiding those they do not want admissions officials to see.
Those born at the tail of the baby boom have been labelled 'the dumbest generation'. Just don't tell Barack ObamaBarack Obama has been hailed as a transformational figure in large part for what he isn't: a baby boomer. Born in August 1961, Obama was a child during the upheavals of the 1960s.
The SAT inches its way to oblivionA call by a panel of leading educators to replace the test with more telling measures is a watershed event
SAT Scores — What the Media Are MissingCATO's analysis of the data coming out about SAT scores.
SAT scores still at low levelIt is easy to look at this data and see bad news, but it really suggests a very positive direction when you consider there is a 30 percent increase in the number of people taking the examination.
SAT Scores Lowest in DecadesHow do our kids fair in standardized tests. The largest standardized test that can get high school grads into colleges and universities, the SAT, shows students scores the lowest in decades.
ACT scores take a slight dip for Class of 2008Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.
2 Colleges End Entrance Exam Requirement - NYTimes.comSmith College, a women's college in Northampton, Mass., and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., will no longer require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of their applications.
Does Reading Lolita and Freakonomics Lead to Higher SAT Scores?A Cal Tech grad student put together a list of the most popular books across college campuses and then correlated those book choices with S.A.T. scores at those schools. His results reveal that the five books with the highest average S.A.T.
Books that make you dumbEver read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality.
Books that make you dumb, or: The other way aroundI found this via Gawker.com, and you really must click the link to see the visuals on this one.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Back to school for Get Smarter Prep, an Overland Park-based test preparation company, means teaching junior and senior high school students how to beat the ACT and SAT college entrance exams.
Living in Marin and wondering what you are getting for your money other than the gorgeous settings, open space, beautiful views, mild weather, quaint towns, green environment, easy commute and many other enviable qualities which make Marin county one of the best places to live in …
Abolish the SATThe SAT got him into Harvard from a small Iowa town. But now, CHARLES MURRAY wants to abolish the test. It's unnecessary and, worse, a negative force in American life.
Chavez Eliminates Entrance Exams for Public UniversitiesVenezuela will eliminate its national college aptitude test, as well as public universities' own entrance examinations, President Hugo Chávez announced last week in a move intended to open university access to students from poor families.
'Tis the season to talk about thick and thin envelopes and, evidently, to draw erroneous conclusions from basic statistics.
How To Get a Perfect Score on the SAT Essay SectionIn the 1930's, American businesses were locked in a fierce economic competition with Russian merchants for fear that their communist philosophies would dominate American markets.
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