New Perspectives on the Correlation of SAT Scores, High School Grades, and Socioeconomic Factors

Autor/inn/en	Zwick, Rebecca; Greif Green, Jennifer
Titel	New Perspectives on the Correlation of SAT Scores, High School Grades, and Socioeconomic Factors
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Measurement, 44 (2007) 1, S.23-45 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0655
DOI	10.1111/j.1745-3984.2007.00025.x
Schlagwörter	Organizations (Groups); High School Students; Grades (Scholastic); Grading; Family Income; Class Rank; College Entrance Examinations; Correlation; Scores; Achievement Tests; Socioeconomic Influences; High Schools; Standards; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Notenspiegel; Notengebung; Schulnote; Familieneinkommen; Aufnahmeprüfung; Korrelation; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Standard
Abstract	In studies of the SAT, correlations of SAT scores, high school grades, and socioeconomic factors (SES) are usually obtained using a university as the unit of analysis. This approach obscures an important structural aspect of the data: The high school grades received by a given institution come from a large number of high schools, all of which have potentially different grading standards. SAT scores, on the other hand, can be assumed to have the same meaning across high schools. Our analyses of a large national sample show that, when pooled within-high-school analyses are applied, high school grades and class rank have larger correlations with family income and education than is evident in the results of typical analyses, and SAT scores have smaller associations with socioeconomic factors. SAT scores and high school grades, therefore, have more similar associations with SES than they do when only the usual across-high-school correlations are considered. (Contains 12 tables and 27 formulas.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10