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Peer reviewedTaube, Kurt T.; Linden, Kathryn W. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1989
The impact of participation rate and nine educational/demographic variables on state mean Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for the class of 1985 was studied. It is misleading to compare scores on standardized tests without considering proportions of potential examinees taking the test, and the SAT needs to be renormed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Demography, High School Seniors, Predictor Variables
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1984
Analysis of the available data suggests that New York's elementary and secondary schools, taken as a whole, compiled a good record of achievement during the 1982-83 school year. Three kinds of test data were analyzed. One was the result of a study which involved the collection of scores on three commercially available standardized tests: the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Elementary Secondary Education, National Norms
PDF pending restorationIllinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Dept. of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1983
This report summarizes information about student achievement, student opportunity to learn in science and mathematics, and student variables relating to that achievement for elementary and secondary students in the state of Illinois. Five tests were used for the basis of this report: The Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress, the American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Div. of Accountability. – 1990
In 1989, North Carolina's scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) were the lowest in the nation. The Superintendent of Public Instruction developed a plan to address this situation, and North Carolina scores improved in 1990 to rank above South Carolina. This report is one aspect of the improvement plan. This first of two volumes introduces…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Friedland, Edward I.; Friedland, Mark W. – 1988
When properly understood, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) support the hypothesis that the performance of American students as measured by the SAT is steadily improving. As the overall pool of SAT takers increases and as pressures to adopt SAT scores as an administrative measure of instructional performance mount, SAT averages at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Michaud, Bob – 1994
After 3 years of dramatic gains, the average Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for the Wake County (North Carolina) Public Schools stayed essentially level for 1994 graduates. The scores did reflect a one point drop in the average total score, which is not considered significant. The leveling off matches a similar trend for the entire state.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Div. of Accountability. – 1990
The analysis of North Carolina performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is part of a larger program addressing the improvement of public school students' performance on skills measured by the SAT. This second of two volumes presents individual school system profiles for the mathematics and verbal sections of the SAT for the 126 school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
