Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Can SAT Scores be valid indicators of educational levels?

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The SAT's have been used as indicators of how students are doing in school but can they be reliable to judge people education? People getting into college strive high scores but Universities are even seeing that SAT's are not the best indicators of success and are making SAT's optional next year. Are people increasing scores by taking the tests over and over, test getting easier, or is it just not adequete measurement? Can it be reliable enough to say that all the other country's who take the SAT and compared it to the U.S. scores were actually higher? What if they got the different tests? Where they tested many times? How can one tell whether the education level of Americans is really lower than other countries?

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