Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions by National Research Council

Author:National Research Council
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education : Higher Education. Education : Testing, Assessments and Standards
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1999-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

The SAT

The SAT I was conceived as a means of identifying the likelihood that students with a wide range of academic preparation could successfully do college-level work.1 It was designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning by means of multiple-choice questions. (The mathematics section also includes some machine-scorable items in which the students generate answers and record them on a grid.) In its current form, the test devotes 75-minutes to the verbal section and 60-minutes to the mathematics section.2 The verbal questions are of three kinds (descriptions from College Board materials quoted in Jaeger and Wightman, 1998:32):

1 SAT I and SAT II are the current names for what used to be two separate testing programs, the SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, and the Achievement Tests. The SAT II (Achievement Testing Program) is a set of tests in academic subjects. Though these tests are used in the college admissions process, their role varies widely and has not generated the controversies that the SAT I has; they are not addressed in this report.

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