thedailyfeed: For the high school class of 2011, SAT reading scores hit a 39-year low and math scores also suffered. College Board officials said that the across-the-board drop was related to the fact that more students of different abilities or degrees of prep participated. But some critics remain skeptical: Bob Schaeffer, public education director of the group Fair Test, a longtime critic of the SAT, found unpersuasive the College Board’s explanation that the declines were due largely to a broadening test pool. In 2003, he said, the number of SAT takers expanded by a greater percentage than last year, but scores that year rose six points on math and reading. “Yes, changing test-taker demographics matter,” he said. “No, they don’t explain an 18-point drop [in combined scores] over five years.”

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For the high school class of 2011, SAT reading scores hit a 39-year low and math scores also suffered. College Board officials said that the across-the-board drop was related to the fact that more students of different abilities or degrees of prep participated. But some critics remain skeptical:

Bob Schaeffer, public education director of the group Fair Test, a longtime critic of the SAT, found unpersuasive the College Board’s explanation that the declines were due largely to a broadening test pool. In 2003, he said, the number of SAT takers expanded by a greater percentage than last year, but scores that year rose six points on math and reading.

“Yes, changing test-taker demographics matter,” he said. “No, they don’t explain an 18-point drop [in combined scores] over five years.”

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