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African American High Scorers Project - Technical Report One: Individual Background Characteristics and SAT Performance (Research Report)
Duncan Chaplin, Jane Hannaway, Stephanie Bell-Rose, Stephanie Creaturo

This is one of a series of four reports based on a study of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) performance of African American students in the United States. This report focuses on individual background characteristics of students: race, gender, family income, and parent education. Data used comprise test score and survey information of all African American SAT takers in 1996 and a random sample of white SAT test takers for the same year.

Posted to Web: November 01, 1998Publication Date: November 01, 1998

African American High Scorers Project - Technical Report Two: School and Neighborhood Factors and SAT Performance (Research Report)
Duncan Chaplin, Jane Hannaway, Stephanie Bell-Rose, Stephanie Creaturo

This is one of a series of four reports based on a study of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) performance of African American students in the United States. This report examines the effects of several factors--social context of the school, school size, school resource measures, and academic focus of the school--on SAT performance. Although the report focuses primarily on students in public schools, it includes a separate estimate of the association between attendance at private and Catholic schools on test performance.

Posted to Web: November 01, 1998Publication Date: November 01, 1998

 

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