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The College BoardPosted on 09/27/2013 2:03:35 PM PDT by neverdem
Fewer than half of the 2013 graduating seniors who took the test got "college-ready" scores.
Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work, according to this year’s SAT Report on College & Career Readiness. For the fifth year in a row, fewer than half of SAT-takers received scores that qualified them as “college-ready.”
The College Board considers a score of 1550 to be the “College and Career Readiness Benchmark.” Students who meet the benchmark(PDF) are more likely to enroll in a four-year college, more likely to earn a GPA of a B- or higher their freshman year, and more likely to complete their degree.
“While some might see stagnant scores as no news, the College Board considers them a call to action. These scores can and must change — and the College Board feels a sense of responsibility to help make that happen,” the report said.
The report also offered insights into why some students graduated high school prepared for college and others didn’t. Students in the class of 2013 who met or exceeded the benchmark were more likely to have completed a core curriculum, to have taken honors or AP courses, and to have taken higher-level mathematics courses, like precalculus, calculus, and trigonometry.
Although the SAT takers in the class of 2013 were the most diverse group of test takers ever, the report showed that minority students’ scores have only slightly improved in the past year.
The College Board
While 14.8 percent of African-American SAT takers met or exceeded the SAT benchmark in 2012, 15.6 percent met or exceeded the mark in 2013...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Minority participation rates for taking the SAT meet or exceed their numbers in the general population.
The second graph is more telling and closely follows the stats in the “Bell Curve” IQ testing book by Charles Murray.
I did find it interesting that asians have slightly better academic achievement even though more whites have completed the so-called “Core Curriculum”.
Even with a dumbed-down SAT (the test has changed a lot in the last 10 years), expect to see little improvement in SAT scores unless we get a huge increase in Asian students. You could attribute results to work ethic and the relative level of cultural reinforcement or you can ascribe to immutable innate traits. The numbers don’t lie.
Wow, what a novel idea!
Wait —No high techy, artistic, creative, multi-media, diversity sensitive, cross cultural socially mind broadening materials?
Memorize? Really?
(/sarc -hope it wasn’t needed.)
Thus the percentiles don't mean much. It's totally possible that just as many qualified students who are motivated to go to college are doing well. My SAT prepping experinece (I did that until 2004) was that the top students were doing even better than they used to. They have to because they're competing with unqualified minorities for those admissions.
I suspect that the social engineers would like to get rid of the SATs and ACTs, just as they did IQ tests. The statistics point out too many inconvenient truths. JMHO
“The world needs ditch diggers, too.”
-PJ
Most people shouldn’t be going to college anyway. We need better vocational training and an apprenticeship system.
Kids need to learn about RAP music, how to kill rich people, how evil white nazi hispanic white tea party monsters kill and eat minority babies and how Obammy saved everyone from the BushChenyHaliburtonIraq War.
It's time to rethink the whole system and replace it from the outside-in.
“College Board considers a score of 1550 to be the “College and Career Readiness Benchmark”
Had ~1450 back when, Merit Scholar, Salutatorian, a semester of AP credit. Have to read deeper to see they’ve added 800 points to the test to make sense of it.
Still, 1550 would be like 1030 back when, which was a respectable score for a college ready student - they must have dumbed the test down as well as adding a section.
This article mentions that 15.6% of African-Americans met the standard, but it doesn’t seem to mention anything about what percentage of white people met the standard. Why is that? What about Asians? Is there some reason they’re not telling us everything?
I’d put my 6th grade graduation certificate up against today’s BAs.
These scores must exclude Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.
“Kids need to learn about RAP music, how to kill rich people, ————————
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And dribble and pass.
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One of the few jobs where you can start at the top.
Year Critical Reading Mathematics Writing
2006..........503.....518.........497
2007..........501.....514.........493
2008..........500.....514.........493
2009..........499.....514.........492
2010..........500.....515.........491
2011..........497.....514.........489
2012..........496.....514.........488
2013..........496.....514.........488
SAT Averages by Race and Ethnicity, 2013
Group........Critical Reading Mathematics Writing Total
American Indian....480.....486.........461.....1,427
Asian....................521.....597.........527.....1,645
Black....................431.....429.........418.....1,278
Mexican-Amer.....449.....464.........442.....1,355
Puerto Rican.........456.....453.........445.....1,354
Other Latino........450.....461.........443.....1,354
White ..................527.....534.........515.....1,576
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/26/sat-scores-are-flat
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
The actual number of HS seniors who are capable of real college work is probably around 10%.
It could be less, it’s certainly not more.
All the rest is lies.
Just as I thought. The addition of the SAT written seemed like a great idea at the time. But within a couple of years, the decline of the written word due to texting and twittering has had its impact. It has caused some reduction in reading as well. However, math has held up okay.
If they had kept the SAT at 1600 points, and made the reading and written portions a total of 800 (keeping the math at 800 points), the decline would be less noticeable.
I expect the SAT written portion is going to be eliminated or dramatically changed within three years.
Just go to your local home-schooling convention and buy textbooks there.
Voucherize, tax-creditize the public schools.
Do anything to create a consumer driven product.
Kill the unions.
Grades will go way up.
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