Is the SAT a 'wealth test'?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 307-311

  Zwick, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 13444276847     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208400411     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. The comments were made at a lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 29 September 2000.
2. Alfie Kohn, "Two Cheers for an End to the SAT," Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 March 2001, p. B-12.
3. Eugene E. Garcia, quoted in Richard Lee Colvin, "Q & A: Should UC Do Away With the SAT?," Los Angeles Times, 1 October 1997, p. B-2.
4. Peter Sacks, "Standardized Testing: Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick," Change, vol. 29, 1997, pp. 25-31.
5. Jeffrey Owings, Marilyn McMillen, and John Burkett, Making the Cut: Who Meets Highly Selective College Entrance Criteria? (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, NCES 95-732, 1995), pp. 3-4.
6. 2001 ACT National and State Scores: Selections from the 2001 National Score Report, retrieved from the ACT website (www.act.org), 19 October 2001;
7. and College-Bound Seniors 2000, retrieved from the College Board website (www.collegeboard.org), 1 September 2000. The standard deviations for the total groups of test-takers were used to compute the standardized differences.
8. Richard Atkinson, "Standardized Tests and Access to American Universities," 2001 Robert H. Atwell Distinguished Lecture, delivered at the 83rd annual meeting of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., 18 February 2001.
9. Saul Geiser and Roger Studley, "UC and the SAT: Predictive Validity and Differential Impact of the SAT I and SAT II at the University of California," University of California Office of the President, 29 October 2001, p. 10. Available at www.ucop.edu/news/sat/welcome.html.
10. Ibid., p. 9.
11. Rebecca Zwick and Jeffrey Sklar, "Analysis of University of California Admissions Data from the UC Office of the President," University of California, Santa Barbara, 29 March 2002, pp. 4-6. Available at www.senate.ucsb.edu/current/ZwickAnalysis.pdf.
12. "California High School Exit Examination State Report," retrieved from the California Department of Education website (http://cahsee.cde.ca.gov), 3 October 2001.
13. Beginning in 2002, NAEP results will be reported for a limited number of large school districts. Some district-level results were reported earlier under special arrangements.
14. James S. Braswell et al., The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2000 (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, NCES 2001517, 2001), pp. 183-84.
15. Ibid., pp. 85-87.
16. Ibid., pp. 70-73.
17. Owings, McMillen, and Burkett, pp. 3-4.
18. Wayne J. Camara and Amy E. Schmidt, Group Differences in Standardized Testing and Social Stratification (New York: College Entrance Examination Board, Report 99-5, 1999), p. 9.
19. Pedro Noguera and Antwi Akom, "Disparities Demystified," The Nation, 5 June 2000, p. 29.
20. Julian R. Betts, Kim S. Rueben, and Anne Danenberg, Equal Resources, Equal Outcomes? The Distribution of School Resources and Student Achievement in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2000), p. 207.
21. Ibid., p. 205.
22. Ibid., p. 265.
23. Ibid., p. 206.