Writing Section Is SAT's Most Predictive, Researchers at U. of Georgia Find - ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Jul 08
  

  Philip Guth

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  • In the latest, a study by researchers at the University of Georgia has found  that the new writing section is a much better predictor of academic success than  the test's critical-reading and mathematics sections.
  • Among their findings: When controlling for other factors, such as level of  parental education, each 100-point increase on the SAT writing section  correlated, on average, with gains of 0.07 on first-year grade-point averages,  0.18 on grade-point averages in freshman English courses, and 0.54 in  credit-hours earned.
  • The College Board's research found that the writing section was slightly more  predictive of freshman grade-point averages than the other two sections—and that  over all, revisions in the test had not diminished its usefulness as an  admissions tool. Those studies evaluated data on approximately 150,000 students  at 110 four-year institutions.
  • Robert A. Schaeffer, public-education director for the National Center for Fair  & Open Testing, a watchdog group, noted that the Georgia researchers' study  pertained only to one freshman class at one university.

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