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Re:Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids by aidenn0 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @01:47PM (#9005034)
Historically, SAT is designed to be an aptitude test, so if the SAT people do their jobs right, a school ought not be able to raise their SAT scores.

Obviously no test is perfectly an aptitude test, and the easiest way to raise average SAT scores is to teach strategies specifically for the SAT.

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Re:Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids by SiVal on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:06PM (#9005629)
You can substitute the international PISA, TIMSS, or the national NAEP for SAT in my final statement and all that I wrote will remain the same. The rest of my comment wasn't referring to the SAT.

And even the SAT depends on how big your vocabulary is (comes from extensive reading of challenging material that is no longer fashionable at elite campus schools of education), how fluent you are in the math they use (fluency comes from what "progressive educators" ridicule as "drill and kill"), and so on, which is why the College Board had to "recenter" the scoring in 1995 after three decades of decreases in educational "aptitude".

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