(Edsurge) By Manuel Ekowo Like most values, diversity does not come cheap. In an era of increasingly competitive college admissions, constrained resources, and the usual uncertainty about where students of all types will enroll, figuring out how and who to attract can be a challenge. Colleges have turned to predictive analytics—using past enrollment data to […]
Read More »(American Enterprise Institute) By Mark Perry — In response to my recent CD post about the gender differences on the math SAT scores over the last half century “2016 SAT test results confirm pattern that’s persisted for 50 years — high school boys are better at math than girls,” AEI research assistants Wendy Morrison and Grace Finley […]
Read More »(Stockhouse) As Colleges Report More Applicants Submitting ACTⓇ Scores, ACT, Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep Launch ACTⓇ Kaplan Online Prep Live to Make Best-in-Class Live Teaching Accessible to All Students Introduction of Live, Interactive Program Supports Growing Popularity of the ACT: Survey Finds 49% of Colleges Report More Applicants Submitting ACT Scores than in Prior […]
Read More »(AEI) By Mark J. Perry — Following up on the recent discussion about the gender differences on the SAT math test, the two tables above provide some additional food for thought based on gender differences on the ACT test. The top table above shows the national test results by gender for the four ACT subject […]
Read More »A number of articles will stem from The College Board’s 2016 Total Group Report. These articles generally reference the following topics: SAT performance by gender, socio-economic status, SAT Math performance by gender, class, income level etc An initial review of the data suggests that not much has changed in terms of gender based average scores […]
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