Volume 7, Number 2 (Summer 2012)

Summary: 

Declining college admission test scores during the 1970s raised concerns that America’s primary schools were inadequately preparing students for college or the workforce. Rock’s (1985) analysis of SAT scores indicated that seniors in 1980 scoring at the 50^th percentile for vocabulary would have placed at the 41^st percentile in 1972. Mathematics scores at the 50^th percentile in 1980 were equivalent to scores at the 45^th percentile in 1972. FULL MANUSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT: http://cnx.org/content/m43569/latest/