Executive Summary
The College Board conducted a pilot predictive validity study to provide colleges and universities with early information about the relationship between the redesigned SAT® and college grades. Fifteen four-year institutions were recruited to administer a pilot form of the redesigned SAT to between 75 and 250 first-year, first-time students very early in the fall semester of 2014. Measures were taken to ensure that the redesigned SAT was administered to students under standardized conditions and that students were motivated to perform well on the test. In June 2015, participating institutions provided the College Board with first-year performance data for those students participating in the fall 2014 administration of the redesigned SAT so that relationships between SAT scores and college performance could be analyzed. Results of study analyses show that the redesigned SAT is as predictive of college success as the current SAT, that redesigned SAT scores improve the ability to predict college performance above high school GPA alone, and that there is a strong, positive relationship between redesigned SAT scores and grades in matching college course domains, suggesting that the redesigned SAT is sensitive to instruction in English language arts, math, science, and history/social studies. Read the Research Report
The College Board Research Report 2016 -1.
By Emily J. Shaw, Jessica P. Marini, Jonathan Beard, Doron Shmueli, Linda Young, and Helen Ng
