Fair Test, an antitesting group, made a similar comment.
MONTY NEILL Cambridge, Mass., June 25 , 2003The writer is director of Fair Test.
Fair Test, a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Mass., that has been critical of the testing industry, says the SAT is an accurate measure only of who can afford coaching and which students attend wealthy public or private schools.
"In the system that N.C.L.B. created, standardized tests are the measure of all that is good, and that has not changed," said Monty Neill, executive director of Fair Test, an antitesting advocacy group.
Monty Neill, executive director of Fair Test, a Massachusetts-based group that monitors standardized testing, said that given the built-in inaccuracies of test scores, it seemed rash to hand out bonuses based on the variation in scores over just one school year.
When those figures are aggregated by race or ethnicity, the average scores of Asian-Americans climbed 36 points over that period, according to the Fair Test analysis, while those of black and Puerto Rican students fell 14 points, and those of white students decreased by 2 points.
Intellectual abilities were assessed using the "Culture Fair Test" (CFT 20-R) from Weiß and Weiß (2006), which taps general fluid ability.
The relatively high correlation between the PAGRT, a verbal measure based on reasoning with grammar, and Cattell's Culture Fair Test, a purely nonverbal measure of Gf, is in line with Oller's (1981) thoughts on the link between language and intelligence.
Several years ago a progressive educational reform group, "Fair Test," found evidence of test cheating and manipulation in thirty-seven states.
