Beliavsky <beliavsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 13, 1:56 pm, enigma <eni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Beliavsky <beliav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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>> glegr oups.com:
>>
>> > I bet that most of the people struggling with high
>> > school math in college never actually learned it in high
>> > school.
>>
>> well, that's pretty obvious. if they *had* learned it,
>> they wouldn't be struggling with it.
>>
>> > The article does not mention what scores were achieved
>> > on the math SAT by the people struggling with math in
>> > college. Those scores would explain the mystery.
>>
>> not really. the SATs are what is referred to as a
>> "multiple guess" test. you have the question, & you have 4
>> possible answers (i think it's 4. might be 3. i took my
>> SATs in 1971). it's NOT that hard to score well if you
>> learn just enough to guess well. you don't have to
>> actually *learn* the material.
>
> SAT scores have fallen over the years, so much so that
> scores had to be recentered upwards
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Name_changes_and_recentered
> _scores . If there were an easy shortcut to high scores,
> students would be exploiting them, aided by the many test
> prep companies. SAT scores are correlated with college
> grades, which often depend on essay exams and term papers
> rather than multiple choice tests.
which is why there is now an essay component to the SATs. one
of my former high school teachers used to be an SAT essay
reader... he gave it up though, because the essays were not
what the student actually thought or knew, but always what the
student thought the reader wanted to see.
i found college to be, well, odd. i was expecting it to be
harder than high school, but in many ways it was easier,
mostly because it *was* a lot of writing essays & term papers,
and there was so much more lead time to get them done. i was
also expecting to finally meet teachers that were smarter than
me. that didn't happen either :p
lee
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