More fuel has been added to the already-raging debate about the validity of the SAT in predicting high school students' achievement in college.
Ever since February, when University of California President Richard Atkinson proposed to eliminate the SAT I requirement from UC admissions and put more emphasis on the SAT II, there have been heated debates about the use of standardized test scores in college admissions.
Now, a UC study supporting Atkinson's recommendation, released last Thursday, has added to the controversy by showing that SAT II achievement tests are better predictors of UC freshman grades than are scores on the SAT I.
Moreover, the results indicate that SAT II scores are much less affected by differences in students' socioeconomic backgrounds than SAT I results.
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