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...traditional mission of the SAT: to help colleges predict how well applicants will do if they are admitted. To be sure, Caperton believes the notion (actually, he's staking his career on it) that the SAT can both improve high schools and still remain useful to colleges as a predictor. But the first goal is a political aim; the second, a psychometric one. And Caperton has surrounded the New SAT with dozens of educators who aren't schooled in psychometrics...
...research shows that the SAT II subject-based tests are just as good at predicting success at U.C. as the regular SAT. "When I saw that data," he says, "that was the nail in the coffin." But according to an exhaustive 2002 College Board study, the most accurate predictor of success in college--at U.C. and everywhere else--is a combination of high school grades, SAT scores and SAT II scores. The changes Atkinson has wrought may alter instruction at the "upscale private school" he talked about in his speech, but they may be corrosive, psychometrically speaking, for the rest...
...example, extrapolates from a combination of attitudes gleaned from opinion polls and life-stage data: where you are in terms of marriage, children, home ownership. "Life stage is a much stronger way of looking at demographics," says J. Walker Smith, president of Yankelovich, "because age isn't really a predictor of everything. Knowing someone is recently married with one child is much more telling to a marketer than knowing whether...
...living--and even more debt to send the kids to college. The only way to cover that debt is for both parents to work, and still they are stretched too thin. It is this phenomenon, Warren and Tyagi argue, that has made having a child "the single best predictor" of financial ruin. Married couples with children are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as childless couples; they are 75% more likely to be late paying bills and also more likely to face foreclosure on their homes...