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Hawkins, Joseph A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
Regardless of how many times people are told by the Educational Testing Service not to use the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) as a gross measure of school productivity, the test continues to be used for that purpose. This article shows how misleading SAT scores and per-student-expenditure correlations are used to justify spending less money on…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Expenditure per Student, Misconceptions, Productivity