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Last year during winter exam period, the two were sitting in DeWolfe, studying for exams and writing tutorial papers. Their desks—of course—were set up so their backs were to each other, otherwise neither would get any work done...
...machinations under way at the College Board. Even test coaches have heard only the barest outlines of what the New SAT will look like. But this is how powerful the test has become: many schools are already worrying about how to change their curriculums to fit the new exam--even though the College Board has yet to finish a first draft of the first test booklet. The maiden administration isn't until March 2005. (The name of the test will be, simply, SAT. The letters now stand for nothing; the "New" is a temporary marketing term...
...difference? Achievement tests gauge mastery of subject matter; your U.S. history final was an achievement test. The SAT IIs are a battery of achievement tests the College Board offers in 18 subjects, including physics and Korean. Aptitude tests are harder to define. Many people seem to think of aptitude exams in general--and the old (or current) SAT in particular--as IQ tests, a notion subtly promulgated by Nicholas Lemann, the new dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, in his influential anti-SAT book, The Big Test (1999). Writing about early versions of the SAT, Lemann points...
...aptitude tests. In a paper that will be published in the forthcoming book Rethinking the SAT, Lohman analyzed test scores for 6,300 11th-graders who in 2000 took two very different tests, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) and the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), a standardized exam first published in 1971 that Lohman helped revise two years ago. The ITED is your basic achievement test: it assesses how well kids have learned such class exercises as setting up science experiments, reading social studies passages, and spelling. The CogAT, by contrast, is a test that measures verbal, quantitative...
...tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever the way colleges pick their students...