NEWS
August 27, 1991
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of high school seniors fell to a record low this year in the verbal section. The scores for the mathematics section also slipped. Maryland students' average scores slipped as well.Do you think that the SAT is a fair measure of a student's likely performance in college, or not? Do you think the declining scores reflect on the quality of schooling, or not?We'd like you to share your opinion by calling SUNDIAL.The call is free and must be made from a tone phone.
NEWS
November 19, 1990
With anything as emotional as a test determining a young person's higher education prospects, job opportunities and earning ability, controversy abounds. The College Board's long-awaited changes to the 64-year-old Scholastic Aptitude Test are no exception.Critics at the Massachusetts-based Center for Fair and Open Testing have labeled cosmetic the proposed elimination of lists of words of opposite meanings, greater emphasis on reading comprehension, open-ended math problems, allowing students to use calculators and essay sections added to achievement tests.
NEWS
June 25, 1994
There are two prevailing myths about the Scholastic Assessment Test, known until recently as the Scholastic Aptitude Test.One is that the results of the college entrance examination demonstrate a steady decline in American school achievement over much of this half of the century. The other (closely related) is that SAT scores show a decline in the quality of American schools over the same period.Both are probably true, but the SAT is no place to find the proof.When the current scoring system was established in 1941 (well before television, remember)
NEWS
By Lan Nguyen and Lan Nguyen,Howard County public school systemStaff Writer | January 30, 1994
Howard County school officials are playing down the significance of last year's Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, which dropped even as state and national scores rose.As a group, the more than 1,600 high school seniors who took the SAT in 1993 posted a combined math and verbal score of 969 points, seven points lower than in 1992, when students scored 976 points, a local record.Yet last year's score is higher than the statewide score of 909 points, a two-point increase from the previous year, and higher than the national score of 902, a three-point increase from the previous year.
NEWS
By Bob Somerby | September 3, 1991
IF YOU want to know what's wrong with the press, take a look at the way it handled last week's release of scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.I'm not suggesting that you examine the scores themselves. They tell virtually nothing about America's school children.Instead, you should examine the hysterical press treatment of these unremarkable scores -- treatment that says more about the school-watchers than about the kids who took the test.The scores, released by the College Board, showed slight declines in what are constantly described -- misleadingly -- as "national averages" in math and verbal performance.
NEWS
By James L. Fisher | July 16, 2002
THE PEAK SAT time will be coming up shortly and the anxiety level of students and their parents is already rising. When will we really take a hard look at the College Board's entrance examination? Should the SAT be changed or de-emphasized or completely dropped as an admission requirement? Passion abounds on both sides -- from diehards who continue to maintain that it is the great equalizer to egalitarians who shout unfair discrimination. Lately, the issue has been further dramatized for me because over the past two years, three of my nine grandchildren have taken the SAT. They scored well and they are honor students.