Stock Guru Profile Harvard Learning Center
Harvard Learning Center understands college admissions offices use the ACT and SAT to confirm a student’s grade or class rank. While Admissions offices have some familiarity with some schools in terms of historical experience the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States are not familiar with MOST high schools represented in the applications. SAT and ACT scores provide a means by which a student’s grades can be confirmed. ACT and SAT scores are becoming crucial in student evaluation.
A national survey shows overall reliance on test scores is higher in admissions than it was a decade ago. “It’s the only thing we have to evaluate students that will help us” tell how they compare to each other, said Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. Grade inflation is hard to measure, and experts caution numbers are often misleading because standards and scales vary so widely. Different practices of “weighting” GPAs for AP work also play havoc. GPAs reported by students on surveys when they take the SAT and ACT exams have also risen — and faster than their scores on those tests. That suggests their classroom grades aren’t rising just because students are getting smarter. Not surprisingly, the test-owners say grade inflation shows why testing should be kept: It gives all students an equal chance to shine.
More than 70 percent of schools and districts analyzed by an education audit company called SchoolMatch had average GPAs significantly higher than they should have been based on their standardized test scores — including the school systems in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Denver, San Bernardino, Calif., and Columbus, Ohio. That raises concerns about students graduating from those schools unprepared for college.
“They get mixed in with students from more rigorous schools and they just get blown away,” said School Match CEO William Bainbridge.
At high schools across the country, more and more students are graduating with grade-Goint averages of A, including some whose averages are well above the traditional 4.0 for and college admissions offices have thousands and thousands of applications coming in from high schools all over the country. ACT and SAT scores are virtually the only means to standardize the comparisons between the grades reflected on the student’s transcripts.
Three national reports this year agreed high school grades are higher than they used to be while test scores do not have a correlation to the grade increase. This bodes well for the continued use and importance of the ACT and SAT.
* A college freshman survey — released in April by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA — said that the trend of grade inflation has continued “unabated” since 1987, noting that nearly half of freshmen reported high school grade point averages of A- or higher in 2006, compared with 19.4 percent in 1966.
* A report on members of the Class of 2006 who took the SAT college entrance exam noted that grades have gone up even though SAT scores haven’t increased as much or have even dropped.
* And a study of high school transcripts and the National Assessment of Educational Progress — known as the Nation’s Report Card — shows grades have risen without a similar boost in national test scores.
As college admissions become more and more competitive, test preparation becomes more a part of the academic process and Harvard Learning Center’s program appeals to students that require a structure environment and those that have the self discipline necessary to adapt to an online learning experience.
Source: Harvard Learning Centers
Harvard Learning Centers, Inc. 433 Plaza Real
Suite 275
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Phone: (561) 962-4197
Email: directoroflearning@sat-act-prep.com
Website: http://www.sat-act-prep.com/
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