cdude1034 said:
You say that like those test scores mean anything. Have SAT scores gone up? Or have we just been teaching to the various state standardized tests? Not only that, but the incidences of...what's the word. Please excuse me, I took some benadryl and I can't think straight right now. I'm talking about...not forgery per se, but where the teachers manipulate the test taking conditions or actually change students answers to give them a better score. I suggest not reading too much into state standardized tests. |
No need to answer, I already know.Technically SAT scores should never really go up because they are based on a Bell Curve distribution. They may fluctuate, but they aren't really going to go up. If anything they are going to go down, because the more people that take the test the less "smart" people are probably taking the test.
And they did rise either 100 or 200 points artificially sometime with in the last few decades, but that is simply because the collegeboard artificially raised the numbers (without actually changing what they mean) to get people to shut the fuck up.
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