The year has barely begun, and it’s already college application season. If you are an advisor or teacher who helps students write college admissions essays, you might consider reading the following post at the NY Times Learning Network: Going Beyond Cliche: How to Write a Great College Essay It has resources and [...]
Looks like the SAT has done it again – scores overall are about what they were last year: Math 516, Ciritical Reading 491, Writing 502. This yields a composite of 1509. The 2009 average composite was also 1509, but broken down slightly differently.
This shouldn’t be surprising. The College Board has a team of stats [...]
Teachers are important influences in children’s lives. Duh. Interesting research has been conducted on the need to intelligently give praise, to tailor rewards such that they don’t interfere with intrinsic motivation to learn and take risks, and now that even the suggestion of gender bias can influence people’s performance on assessments.
A professional economist and close associate of the Wandering Academic (he is Nate Clinton, a director of product management at Thomson Reuters, former analyst at the Federal Reserve) has done a short analysis of the School Rankings numbers. The results? IB diploma scores and SAT composite scores are not well correlated. Read to see his visualization and comments.
Check out the new International School Rankings! See interesting SAT, IB and GPA data from a growing list of schools around the world, including Int’l School of Beijing, Singapore American, Cairo American College, and American School of Paris. Check out the new “Data” tab in the nav bar up top.
Follow the exploits of Eliot Schrefer as he submits an SAT essay that is morally repugnant yet has excellent structure, language and syntax. Can you defend Naziism in a well-written, 5 paragraph essay? How does the SAT handle that?
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