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- From: ann@cco.caltech.edu (Ann Terese Heil)
- Newsgroups: misc.education,misc.kids,sci.edu
- Subject: Re: Branding kids, IQ tests, smart vs dumb (Was: Re: Seminar Program)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:10:33 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >In the early 1960's I worked in a university admissions office. We did studies
- >on the SAT back then, in an effort to create a formula incorporating that and
- >class rank or GPA. From what I can recall, I'd agree with Beckman's view of
- >the predictive value of the tests. There was a general trend, but a very, very
- >wide variance. The correlation wasn't anything to write home about. It was
- >higher for the verbal SAT score, but then this was a liberal arts school.
- >
- >Does anyone have better information from more recent studies (hopefully not
- >funded by the SAT people...)? One would hope universities have continued to
- >do such research up to the present time.
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- MIT did some recent studies in which they looked at SATs versus
- performance once admitted (via grade point average, I believe).
- They found that SAT scores underpredicted the performance of female
- students relative to male students. That is, for a group of students
- having close SAT scores, the females in the group attained higher
- grades than the male students. I believe they changed their admissions
- policies according, to give less weight to SAT scores.
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- ann
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- (My apologies for the topic drift.)
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