On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Mike Resnick wrote:
> I think if it's "students and teachers talking to each other", it's at
> a simpler level than it used to be. When I graduated high school, the
> national average score for the two SATs was 1000. Today it's 700. Worse,
> I see that a score of 700 today will be magically metamorphized into
> a score of 900 in 1998, so students won't feel inferior. I think there's
> a better way to stop students from feeling inferior: teach them better
> so they won't have a -reason- to feel inferior.
>
> -- Mike Resnick
>
For once, I'm cheering Mr. Resnick for reasons other that his writing skill.
I had not heard about them curving SAT scores come 1998. So, my question
is, what happens to those of us who are at the top of the pile already?
If you arbitrarily add 200 points to my score (c. 1992) I'd be well off
the scale. Does it become yet another system that measures the middle
ground and leaves the rest to our own devices?
Debbie Jo
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