Students Bombed the SAT This Year, in Four Charts; Scores on the reading were the worst in decades..
September 3, 2015 1:10 AM EDT
This year's high school graduates did worse on the SAT than their peers last year. And there's more bad news for the College Board, which administers the test: Fewer people are taking the SAT than are taking the ACT, its top competitor.
Students in the high school class of 2015 turned in the lowest critical reading score on the SAT college entrance exam in more than 40 years, with all three sections declining from the previous year. Meanwhile, ACT Inc. reported that nearly 60 percent of all 2015 high school graduates took the ACT, up from 49 percent in 2011.
The mean score on the math portion of the SAT, 511, is the lowest since 1999. The highest possible score on each section is 800. The reading score of 495 is the worst since 1972, according to data provided by the College Board. The test administrator reported the lowest score for the SAT's writing section since it began in 2005.
The number of high school graduates who took the SAT reached an all-time high of almost 1.7 million this year. However, that lags the rival ACT by more than 225,000. The SAT is being revised, with the first administration next March. The new test will be similar to the ACT, as penalties will be eliminated for wrong answers and it will have an optional writing test.
ACT Inc. also delivered gloomy news about the preparedness of the next generation of college students. The company measured how many students were ready for college based on their scores on the ACT this year. It determines readiness by looking at the share of test takers who scored above a certain benchmark, which the company says will give a student a 75 percent chance of earning a C or above in a corresponding college course.
more...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/students-bombed-the-sat-this-year-in-four-charts
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Of a worker class crippled by lack of opportunity is finally coming together.
Kill the schools, kill the poverty escape mechanism. More money for the ones who need none.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Oneironaut
(5,479 posts)The right wing meme is something like that.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Just what the "lords" of the oligarchy want.
[font color="purple"]Go, Bernie!
Ride the purple wave and join The Purple Revolution!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I wonder how the scores from charters measured up against those from private schools and from public schools.
DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)and I think most of the youngsters prefer their do-hickeys to books.
"evidence from laboratory experiments, polls and consumer reports indicates that modern screens and e-readers fail to adequately recreate certain tactile experiences of reading on paper that many people miss and, more importantly, prevent people from navigating long texts in an intuitive and satisfying way. In turn, such navigational difficulties may subtly inhibit reading comprehension. Compared with paper, screens may also drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and make it a little harder to remember what we read when we are done."
from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)and text messaging all day doesn't help one let learning sink in..
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)So, how long has it been since the educators determined curriculum and methods?
And not politicians and profiteers?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)flamingdem
(39,308 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,120 posts)The disaster of the Bush years have created conditions that have been especially hard on our youngest citizens.