The College Board released the 2012 scores for college-bound seniors
last week. Didn’t notice, did you? That’s because there was once again
no news: Both the national scores and the scores for different
ethnicities didn’t budge by more than a point or two.
It’s been pretty much like that for twenty years now. Following a plunge in SAT scores from the mid 1960s to 1980 and a mild rebound during the 1980s, SAT scores have shown no significant change since 1992 (when the SAT was recentered) for whites, blacks, or Latinos. Only Asian scores have risen meaningfully, from 487 to 518 in verbal (“critical reasoning,” as it is now called) and from 551 to 595 in math, which amount to increases of about .28 and .39 standard deviations respectively. White increases in verbal and math amounted to .07 and .19 standard deviations respectively, while both black and Latino scores were flat on verbal and increased .08 standard deviations in math. (A technical note: My Latino scores combine the SAT scores for Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, reported separately by the College Board, weighted by the proportion of test-takers in each group as of 2011.)
Read more: http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/when-will-the-feds-admit-that-they-havent-got-a-clue-about-k-12-education/
It’s been pretty much like that for twenty years now. Following a plunge in SAT scores from the mid 1960s to 1980 and a mild rebound during the 1980s, SAT scores have shown no significant change since 1992 (when the SAT was recentered) for whites, blacks, or Latinos. Only Asian scores have risen meaningfully, from 487 to 518 in verbal (“critical reasoning,” as it is now called) and from 551 to 595 in math, which amount to increases of about .28 and .39 standard deviations respectively. White increases in verbal and math amounted to .07 and .19 standard deviations respectively, while both black and Latino scores were flat on verbal and increased .08 standard deviations in math. (A technical note: My Latino scores combine the SAT scores for Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, reported separately by the College Board, weighted by the proportion of test-takers in each group as of 2011.)
Read more: http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/when-will-the-feds-admit-that-they-havent-got-a-clue-about-k-12-education/
No comments:
Post a Comment