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...Research from colleges that have dropped the SAT requirement reinforces the notion that the test measures little. Bowdoin College, which started the sat-optional movement in 1969, often studies how well its admissions officers predict college performance without SATs. It has repeatedly found that its rating - a numerical value assigned each applicant on the basis of GPA, essays and other factors - correlates very highly with the student's GPA at Bowdoin. Factoring in SAT scores improves that correlation only slightly. The College Board says that, across many colleges, SAT scores improve the correlation between admissions predictions and GPA realities...
...next step of the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute to the campus environment. If the test does predict with any accuracy a student's persistence or adaptability in college, Bial hopes it will eventually become a standard that colleges use along with high school grades and SAT or ACT scores...
...there any way to predict when the bigger earthquake(s) will actually happen...
...that could be successful for quite a while. For how long? He wouldn't say, but his analogies - Cuba and the Soviet Union - will surely scandalize hard-liners, who think Saddam could be ousted in a year. If Powell emerges as the dove in the Bush Cabinet, as some predict, he could be in for heavy flak from more than just a few editorial writers...
...Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery. What, exactly, does it measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their...