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...decline (out of a possible 1,600 on those two sections) isn?t much. It?s less than the value of a single question, which is about 10 points. Also, the SAT radically changed last year. The College Board made it longer and added Algebra II, grammar and an essay. Fewer kids wanted to take the new 3-hr., 45-min. test more than once, so fewer had an opportunity to improve their performance. Scores were bound to slide...
...standard error of measurement of about 30 points for each section. In other words, if you got a 500 on the math section, your ?true? score was anywhere between 470 and 530. But the new writing section, which includes not only a multiple-choice grammar segment but the subjective essay, has a standard error of measurement of 40 points, meaning a kid who gets a 760 on the section may actually be a perfect 800 - or a clever-but-no-genius 720. In short, the College Board sacrificed some testing reliability in order to include writing...
...Summer Journey double issue tracing Marco Polo's epic trail followed an intellectual path, exploring the ways in which East and West now meet each other. In response, readers shared tales of travel, thoughts on ideas that changed the world and meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A revolutionary from Venice" [Aug. 7] pointed out that, before Marco Polo shed some light on the subject, the Western (Christian) world's geographic and political center had been Jerusalem. That reminded me of Copernicus' famous assertion that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the heavens. Both discoveries were...
...College Gender Gap Barbara Ehrenreich's essay about boys goofing off at college while girls are overachieving was nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care to be stereotyped that way back then, and as the mother of 18-year-old twin sons who are honor students, eagle scouts, Young Democrats and all-around solid citizens, I deeply resent such a demeaning picture of the current crop of young men. Surely there are also plenty of unfocused, lazy...
...after writing an essay that made perfect sense to me and that I had worked on for several days, did I get a grade far lower than those I had gotten in high school English? Since kindergarten, writing was always my forté, and I felt slighted that writing in Expos had to mean following a formula—thesis up front, motive next, argument, then counter-argument—and to wander from said equation would be tantamount to grade death...