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Download full textPowers, Donald E.; Rock, Donald A. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
A College Board-sponsored survey of a nationally representative sample of takers of the 1995-96 SAT I: Reasoning Test yielded a database for more than 4,000 examinees, about 500 of whom had attended formal coaching programs outside their schools. Several alternative analytical methods were used to estimate the effects of coaching on SAT scores.…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, National Surveys, Cognitive Tests, Test Preparation
