On Monday, January 5, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Linda Di Desidero wrote:

Does anyone believe for a moment that someone who sees this as an error is better prepared for college than someone who doesn't?

There may well be some people who believe that people who see this as an error are more likely to receive a college degree and to have a higher college GPA, and ETS may have the data to support such a relation. That would satisfy a very shallow reading of “better prepared for college,” and that is, sadly, enough for a lot of policy-makers. “Better prepared for what we would prefer to think college should be doing” is frequently a quite different thing.

The perception that the SAT has value is entirely based on the extent to which scores on it correlate with college performance — the score can be a good “predictor” on bases no one wants to label valid (e.g., students who know how to game a multiple choice test tend to do well on the SAT and in college classes that use multiple choice tests). The SAT thrives on being right for all the wrong reasons.

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