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...January of 1952, the Alumni Bulletin published an article that quoted the Corporation, one of Harvard’s two governing boards, as releasing the following statement: “The inclusion of the name of an alumnus who served in the German Army was an error and will be corrected...
...defines, she said. DHS allows international students to pay by mail or online with a credit card. While Ladd said she does not expect problems with the latter method, paper submissions of the fee will require a money order and time for processing, potentially yield a higher margin of error and ultimately make the process more difficult for students...
...team tournament, which had been rescheduled after being rained out on Sept. 28 and 29, was shortened to only one day, leaving the Crimson with no margin for error...
Reliability is a measure of a test's precision from one administration to the next--a gauge of how much noise, or measurement error, it has eliminated. The standard error of measurement for a typical SAT is about 30 points for the math section and 30 for the verbal. That's why the College Board tries to get students and admissions officers to think of scores not as pinpoints but as ranges: if you get 510 on the SAT's math section, your "true" score is anywhere between...
Thirty points in either direction is a pretty big swing, but scores on the writing section will be even less reliable: field trials of the New SAT estimate a standard error of measurement of 41 points. That means a kid who gets a 670 may "really" be in the elite reaches of the 700s--or in the more average environs of the low 600s. There are two reasons for the writing test's imprecision: first, the multiple-choice component of the test will be just 20 to 30 minutes, compared with 70 minutes each for math and reading. Less time...