Word: verbalism
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...many noteworthy facts (girls got higher average scores, for example, yet had less ambitious college plans than boys). But one seemingly ominous result attracted the most attention: the mean SAT scores had declined for the tenth year in a row. The biggest drop was in this year's verbal scores, from a mean of 450 in 1971-72 to 443 in 1972-73. That compared to a verbal mean...
...past five years, as the number of students going to college has leveled off, the number taking the test has also stabilized, making this explanation no longer valid. Could it be, as many parents fear, that American schools just are not doing as good a job of developing verbal and mathematical skills as they used to do? Or are American kids simply getting dumber...
...Verbal 478 Mathematical...
...Verbal 475 Mathematical...
...Verbal 473 Mathematical...