Opinion: The new SAT score will identify barriers — but it won’t remove them
By Christine Emba Christine Emba Columnist focused on ideas and society. Email Bio Follow Columnist May 25 at 2:27 PM The graduation caps have been thrown and summer bliss beckons. The SAT is nothing but a hazy, horrible memory — which is perhaps why the College Board chose this month to announce its latest tweak to the test from hell.
The dashboard displays a great deal of information, from the average SAT and AP test performance at a student’s high school to the crime levels in their neighborhood, all compared to national norms. But it has attracted criticism for also providing colleges with what the board calls an “overall disadvantage level,” a single number calculated using 15 factors related to students’ relative high school, neighborhood and family environment.
SAT was originally an acronym for “Scholastic Aptitude Test,” but the longer title was dropped in the mid-1990s as it became apparent that “aptitude” was neither immutable nor innate, and that the markers of intelligence it depended on were often skewed by gender, race and class. The acronym became a trademark, nothing more, and the board says today that the test is meant only to measure a core of reading and math skills.
The College Board’s new Environmental Context data is meant to give admissions officers reason to give a second look to students who may have a lower SAT score but one that is outstanding relative to the disadvantages they face, indicating particular resourcefulness or grit. But what would be more effective, and important, would be to put more effort into doing away with such hobbles altogether.
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