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ERIC Number: ED304064
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 75
Abstractor: N/A
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Students with Disabilities: Four Years of Data from Special Test Administrations of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, 1980-83. College Board Report No. 87-2.
Ragosta, Marjorie
Four years of data (1980 to 1983) from "College-Bound Seniors: Eleven Years of National Data from the College Board's Admissions Testing Program 1973-1983" have been extracted and reported as a comparison for analogous data on test takers with hearing, learning, physical and visual disabilities over the same four years. The data on test-takers with disabilities results from an analysis of data on special test administrations of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for students with disabilities. Highlights of the 19 tables include the following: (1) the number students registering to take the SAT under the Admissions Testing Program's Services for Handicapped Students increased by more than 80% from 1980 to 1983, with most of the change occurring in the number of learning-disabled test-takers, which increased from 57% to 71%; (2) test-takers with disabilities consistently earned lower mean verbal scores than the college-bound seniors; those with visual and physical impairments earned higher mean scores than those with learning disabilities, who earned higher mean scores than those with hearing impairments; (3) the pattern of the math scores for disabled test-takers was the same, though less extreme; (4) although minority students represented 18% of college-bound seniors, they were present in lesser proportions among the disabled test-takers; (5) learning-disabled test-takers came from families with relatively high incomes; and (6) compared to the college-bound seniors, a larger percentage of disabled test-takers reported goals associated with 2 years of postsecondary education and a smaller percentage reported a goal of graduate study. The Student Descriptive Questionnaire is appended. (KM)
College Board Publications, Box 886, New York, NY 10101 ($6.00).
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY.
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: SAT (College Admission Test); Student Descriptive Questionnaire
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