Op-Ed Contributor - The Test Passes, Colleges Fail - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 19 Nov 08
  

  Casey Finnerty

  Education

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  Huuuuuuuge holeS. I mean huge. And also so what.

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  • Most revealingly, graduation rates actually declined at the seven SUNY campuses that did not raise their cutoffs and whose entering students’ SAT scores from 1997 to 2001 were stable or rose only modestly. Even at Binghamton, always the most selective of SUNY’s research universities, the graduation rate declined by 2.8 percent.

  • by comparing graduation rates at SUNY campuses that raised the SAT admissions bar with those that didn’t, we have a controlled experiment of sorts that can fairly conclusively tell us whether SAT scores were accurate predictors of whether a student would get a degree.

    The short answer is: yes, they were.
• 18 Nov 08
  

  Sean Devine

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