Word: predictor
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...former Ivy League admissions after or last night's speech-who asked not to be named-said," I basically agree with Owen. The SAT is biased in many ways and is not necessarily an accurate predictor of what students will do in college. But some objective-in quotation marks-national measure is needed...
...applicants are required to take the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), which measures reasoning abilities. While critics charge the test can be culturally biased, the admissions office stands by its value as a common predictor of law school performance...
Both schools have strong football traditions and a famous grid alum from the late 1960s. For Cornell it was running back Ed Marinaro, second in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1971. For UMass it was Greg Landry (this week's guest predictor), who quarter backed the Baltimore Colts and the Detroit Lions in the NFL before moving to his current position with the USFL's Chicago Blitz...
...Sinai Medical Center says flatly, "If you want to guess what a child will be like at age seven, look first to the socioeconomic background." This is not simply a matter of economic hardship or nutritional deficiency. Says Brown's Lipsitt: "The socioeconomic index is as powerful a predictor of later intellectual prowess as any variable we've got, but it doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is a representation of the way people live and relate toward each other, and the way they behave toward babies...
...stressed Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). But the University's shift reflects but one side of a growing debate among educators over just which test is more free of bias, whether colleges should be testing for innate ability or proven achievement, and whether any established test is really an accurate predictor of either...