Poor students have long trailed affluent peers in school performance, but from grade-school tests to college completion, the gaps are growing.
Most educators are likely to turn away in horror at the very concept of extending standardized testing to colleges and universities to make clear what students learn there.
Steele gave the spatial reasoning test to 125 college students.
Charter operators say they still rely heavily on achievement data ranging from standardized test scores to college enrollment rates to attendance, and some factor test scores in for as much as 70percentt of a teacher's assessment.
The 52-page report provides the first international comparison of teacher preparation based on a test given to college students in a significant number of countries, he said.
The modern day recipe for success is all about those boundaries: go to school, do well, write a standardized test, go to college, do well, apply for a job, get a job, work until you retire.
The results of the tests, administered to college prospects during February's draft combine and meant to gauge problem-solving and critical-thinking capacities, are supposed to be kept secret by the league, but gosh darn it if they don't find a way to emerge in cherry blossom-like fashion, every spring.
The College Board and its global test administration and security provider, Educational Testing Service (ETS), are dedicated to delivering valid, reliable test scores to colleges and universities.
PAGE A16 U.S. Measure of Cancer Risk Faulted A18 A.P. ITALIAN TEST TO END The College Board will drop its Advanced Placement Italian program at the end of this academic year, just three years after it began offering it.
It also said that it planned to return registration fees and charges for sending test scores to colleges to the students whose scores were in error.
