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...that question to David Lohman, a University of Iowa psychology professor who has studied the differences between achievement and 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...
When he compared ITED and CogAT scores by race, Lohman found something surprising to those outside his field: the gap between white and minority students was smaller on the reasoning test than on the achievement test. Whites did about the same on both 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...
...Janet Fitch novel (and Oprah book) that inspired this perfect-child-in-a-rotten-world drama is a cozy read. Teenage foster child Astrid (Alison Lohman) has monumentally bad luck with mother figures (Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger) but endures by taking on the attitudes of the women who disappoint her. Somehow the viewer endures too, because Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film...
...should have a party," Madeline A. Lohman...
Samuel M. Lohman Oklahoma City