THE GROWING CORRELATION BETWEEN RACE AND SAT SCORES: NEW FINDINGS FROM CALIFORNIA
THE GROWING CORRELATION BETWEEN RACE AND SAT SCORES: NEW FINDINGS FROM CALIFORNIA
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种族和 SAT 成绩之间日益增强的相关性：来自加利福尼亚州的新发现
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2015
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Saul Geiser
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作者：
Saul Geiser
这篇论文就种族和SAT成绩之间的关系提出了令人惊讶的新发现。这一发现基于1994年至2011年申请加州大学入学的加州居民人口，样本超过110万名学生。加州大学的数据显示，在过去20年里，社会经济背景因素--家庭收入、父母教育和种族/民族--在学生的SAT成绩差异中占了很大比例，而且比例越来越大。现在，SAT成绩中超过三分之一的差异可以通过学生出生时已知的因素来预测，而1994年的差异只有四分之一。此外，在这些因素中，种族已成为最强的预测者。在解释考试成绩差异方面，种族和民族现在比家庭收入或父母教育更重要，而不是显着性下降。必须提醒的是，这些发现是初步的，还需要更多的研究来确定加州的数据是否反映了更广泛的全国趋势。但是，如果这些发现具有代表性，它们将对目前正在进行的关于平权行动和大学招生标准化测试的辩论产生重要影响。
This paper presents new and surprising findings on the relationship between race and SAT scores. The findings are based on the population of California residents who applied for admission to the University of California from 1994 through 2011, a sample of over 1.1 million students. The UC data show that socioeconomic background factors – family income, parental education, and race/ethnicity – account for a large and growing share of the variance in students’ SAT scores over the past twenty years. More than a third of the variance in SAT scores can now be predicted by factors known at students’ birth, up from a quarter of the variance in 1994. Of those factors, moreover, race has become the strongest predictor. Rather than declining in salience, race and ethnicity are now more important than either family income or parental education in accounting for test score differences. It must be cautioned that these findings are preliminary, and more research is needed to determine whether the California data reflect a broader national trend. But if these findings are representative, they have important implications for the ongoing debate over both affirmative action and standardized testing in college admissions.