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...always found it absolutely fascinating to hear him work through issues,” recalls O’Mary, who is now working for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and plans to attend Boston College Law School next year. “He would lay out arguments and the opposite side just so he understood the opposite side. He always felt if he did not understand the opposite view, he did not want to make a decision about that argument...
More broadly, students who attend failing schools could suffer as the SAT morphs from a test of general-reasoning abilities into a test of what kids learn in school. "There's a danger that making it too curriculum-dependent will actually increase overall score gaps for some minority groups," says Rebecca Zwick, a former chair of the College Board's own SAT Committee. "Because we have such huge disparities in the quality of schooling in the country, kids who go to crummy schools may be disadvantaged...
...months ago, TIME asked the College Board if we could sort out some of these conundrums by following the development of the New SAT from inside. To our surprise, board president Gaston Caperton III agreed. Renouncing his predecessors' often combative p.r. approach, Caperton allowed me to attend a series of meetings at which New SAT items were previewed and debated. An experienced politician--he was elected Governor of West Virginia in 1988 and '92--Caperton knows the old adage about making laws and sausage. Designing tests is also a messy process, and he deserves credit for laying it bare...
...exams, but the percentage of blacks who scored reasonably well (above the 70th percentile) was higher on the CogAT tests. Others have replicated such findings by comparing achievement and reasoning tests in earlier grades; one theory as to why minorities often score higher on the latter is that they attend poor schools that leave their potential untapped. "Indeed," writes Lohman in Rethinking the SAT, "the problem with the current version of the SAT"--which continues to show a racial score gap--"may not be that it is an aptitude test, but that it is not enough of an aptitude test...
Psychologist Robert Sternberg's first field study in intelligence took place in grade school, when poor scores on IQ tests convinced him he was a "dum-dum." Largely thanks to an exceptional fourth-grade teacher, Sternberg managed to shed his self-doubt, improve his grades and go on to attend Yale University, but he never shook the sense that traditional tests are missing something. "You don't get to the top in life just on your IQ points or your SAT score," says Sternberg, now a professor at Yale and president of the American Psychological Association (APA). "You have...