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Do you have a source on the first claim? I'm curious, as someone who was slightly involved with a documentary [1] exposing pitfalls of standardized testing. Ge
by mj_olnir 7y ago
Do you have a source on the first claim?
I'm curious, as someone who was slightly involved with a documentary [1] exposing pitfalls of standardized testing. Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year (some studies I read showed only first semester, but I don't have them on hand right now) collegiate performance [2].
[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3393042/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3393042/
[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/26/new-research-suggests-sat-under-or-overpredicts-first-year-grades-hundreds-thousands https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/26/new-research-...
- jasode 7y ago>Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year [...] collegiate performance [2]. That's not what your cite says. The InsideHigherEd article actually shows a strong correlation between SAT and grades but Aquinas identified a minority % of schools where it didn't. Please carefully read the 3 bullet points again and notice the minority percentages. Your qualifier of "Generally" in your comment is misrepresenting Aguinis' findings.
- CompelTechnic 7y agohttps://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf?origin=publication_detail https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf?origin=... Correlation was .82 between the SAT and the armed forces vocational aptitude battery, which is designed as an IQ test. https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/12/14/how-well-does-the-sat-correlate-with-official-iq-tests/ https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/12/14/how-well-does-the-sat-c... Correlation was 0.48 between SAT and Raven Progressive Matrices.