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SAT-ACT Conversion chart

Converting raw scores to SAT scores. Good :)

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Coaching and Lasting Out New SAT :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

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the new writing test — a key part of the new and expanded SAT — is coachable, with significant gains possible for those who would otherwise receive low scores.
At the board’s annual meeting Friday, officials admitted that the new writing test — a key part of the new and expanded SAT — is coachable, with significant gains possible for those who would otherwise receive low scores.
The site repeats past statements that many students who are coached show little or no gain, and says that some testing companies — which the board does not name — are hurting students by telling them to memorize an essay that they can write down regardless of the essay question. This is bad advice and will hurt students, the board says.
But at the board’s annual meeting, Wayne Camara, vice president for research and analysis of the College Board, described research that recently found that coaching — even short-term coaching — does have a major impact on those with poor writing skills. For the research, six graduate students were assigned to put together a coaching program by signing up for a bunch of coaching services, and then developing a coaching program based on what they had learned.

A group of college freshmen were then divided in two: One group went through a nine-hour coaching program led by the graduate students and the other students were the control group. The students took the writing test before and after the coaching, and the coaching had a significant impact on those who did poorly the first time around — increasing their scores by an average of 3 points on the 12-point scale used on the essay.

Camara also said that the study had the students write two essays that are of the sort that college freshmen actually write (not the timed essay with prompt that is on the SAT). Coached students who were poor writers at the beginning did better on the actual essays and not just the SAT, Camara said. As a result, he characterized the coaching for the writing test as “not a bad thing,” in contrast to other coaching, which he said is more likely to teach test-taking skills than meaningful knowledge.
Lutz said that the Princeton Review commissioned a third party study on this that won’t be out until next year, but that all the evidence he is seeing from Princeton Review counselors suggests that the new writing test “may be the most coachable portion of the SAT.”

He echoed the views of many college officials who have decided not to use the writing test in saying that its approach is flawed. “It’s a bad way to measure writing skills — a 25-minute essay on an esoteric subject.”
Many of the SAT essay questions are philosophical in nature — the debut question, for example, was on whether majority rule is always right — and some think that the nature of the prompts contributes to their coachability as students are taught a mix of tactics to formulate good essays.
The board compared the rates at which students provide incorrect answers or skip questions — and those rates are constant throughout the test. If fatigue was causing problems, Camara said, the rates wouldn’t have stayed constant.
The SAT is considering letting people who take the test multiple times select only one part to take again, he said. For students who take the SAT more than once, many colleges allow students to take the highest score they received on each part of the SAT, so a student may be evaluated on a mathematics score from one day she took the test and the critical reading score from another day.

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Blind Devotion?

Koreans' Fervor to Master English Gets Nowhere

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The problem before was mostly with the speaking, as most students focused on reading, grammar and vocabulary. These days, however, many college, or secondary and even elementary school students, speak better than their parents, but their reading and writing skills seem to have improved little, if not got worse.

As in everything, English education here seems to be influenced too much by specific fads of the times ― from one extreme to the other. If learning a foreign tongue is not for just mastering the street language or simple daily life but for understanding high levels of foreign culture and academic achievement, the current conversation-oriented method should give way to a more balanced study of reading, writing and speaking.

Provided the government keeps certain points in mind and makes due preparation, the ``English immersion'' program is a worthy attempt. Most of all, the education ministry should ensure that students' level of understanding of their subjects should be the same whether they are taught in English or in Korean, and that their ability in their mother tongue should not be impaired.

With the launch of pilot programs with qualified native speakers, the government needs to start the cultivation of capable local teachers en masse to expand the immersion program.

Most countries that placed high in the test results, such as Finland, did little more than implement immersion programs on a selected basis and created an English-friendly atmosphere in overall society, including major network broadcasters.
Korea's dismal placing on a British-sponsored English test was only the latest of repeated confirmation that its education methodology has problems. The time seems to be well past for all parties concerned ― the government, schools and people ― to stop for a while and think why do Koreans fare so poorly while their fervor to master the lingua franca is the hottest in the world.

The three countries in Northeast Asia have long been regarded as belonging to the poorest learners of English in the world. So many Koreans might have been disappointed with their ranking placed even lower than those of the Chinese and Japanese. And this is happening in a country, where the people spend $15 billion a year just on studying English, pregnant women teach English to their fetuses and mothers and children live abroad mainly for mastering English, leaving a number of ``lone-goose'' fathers at home.

All the fuss even begs the question: Are the Korean people not cut out for English or is this because this country was a ``land of hermits'' as recently as a century ago? Both don't seem to be the answer, which brings one back to question of the right methodology.

The Yale Herald - November 14, 2003 - Ace it with PACE: Making testing actually matter

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What's wrong with college admissions

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USATODAY.com - Yale psychologist designs test, a challenger to the SAT

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Choosing Students: Higher Education ... - Google Book Search

Google Book Search chapter about Rainbow "Successful Intelligence" test being floated to supplement SAT. Creativite, Practical, and Analytical intelligences tested. I'm ambivalent.

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[M]etabrain[E]ntry[L]og: History of grading

note book referenced in comment on history of grades in mod edu.

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Amazon.com: Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform: Diane Ravitch: Books

Buy this. More research on modern education, grading, class sizes, curriculum, etc.

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College Board Rethinks Error Policy :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

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Mount Holyoke College :: SAT Policy

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More colleges move toward optional SATs - CNN.com

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Momentum for Going SAT-Optional :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

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Another First for SAT-Optional Movement :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

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Souly Catholic H.S.: Grades, grades, and more grades!

Great post by Charlie Roy, great comment thread and links. Grades were invented to increase class size. Learning died that day.

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Why doesn't your school give grades? (History of grading in edu.)

Great history of grading. Origins with this lazy bastard in 1792. Dickens weeps.

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From Degrading to De-Grading: Alfie Kohn

Outstanding argument, backed by research, against using grades at all. Thanks to Bill Farren and Charlie Roy for this one.

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