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...Guest Predictor: Photography Chair...
After being told his apology was “too late,” Conan O’Brien will mysteriously disappear, proving to all that you “don’t mess with Quebec.” This predictor will not make the requisite French joke here, for fear of her life...
...Guest Predictor: News Editor
...traditional mission of the SAT: to help colleges predict how well applicants will do if they are admitted. To be sure, Caperton believes the notion (actually, he's staking his career on it) that the SAT can both improve high schools and still remain useful to colleges as a predictor. But the first goal is a political aim; the second, a psychometric one. And Caperton has surrounded the New SAT with dozens of educators who aren't schooled in psychometrics...
...research shows that the SAT II subject-based tests are just as good at predicting success at U.C. as the regular SAT. "When I saw that data," he says, "that was the nail in the coffin." But according to an exhaustive 2002 College Board study, the most accurate predictor of success in college--at U.C. and everywhere else--is a combination of high school grades, SAT scores and SAT II scores. The changes Atkinson has wrought may alter instruction at the "upscale private school" he talked about in his speech, but they may be corrosive, psychometrically speaking, for the rest...