When Will the Educators Learn? SAT Fallacies

	posted by Scott on Thursday August 30, @12:44PM from the education dept.
	frank h writes "The LA Times Article SAT's Gender Gap Widening analyzes, not very carefully it seems, the gender gap that persists in SAT performance. The "experts" STILL do not recognize the the SAT is a VOLUNTARY test, and that because of this, it NOT a good generalized assessment of academic performance for any group, whether divided along gender or ethnic lines. A better assessment of academic performance is a test that EVERY student must take, such as the New Jersey ESPA and GEPA, which show that girls are ahead by a lot, especially in reading and language arts. The gender and ethnic reports for the NJ 4th and 8th grade tests can be found here."

	Source: The L.A. Times [newspaper] Title: SAT's Gender Gap Widening Author: Martha Groves Date: August 29, 2001

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ETS Knows This... (Score:2) by frank h on Thursday August 30, @01:03PM EST (#1) (User #141 Info) I spoke with one woman quoted in the article who generally agrees with me that the SAT is not a very good indicator of the performance of the population, at least not without considering the characteristics of the group sampled. I was advised to see the "College-Bound Seniors 2000" report which the College Board publishes along with the SAT results. But the girl-advocates selectively ignore this report. I couldn't find the 2000 report on the web, but the 1999 report is here (http://www.collegeboard.org/sat/cbsenior/yr1999/N AT/cbs1999.html). ETS knows the nature of the population but cannot stop the journalists from making their own (poor) judgements.

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