PSYC 406 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Test Anxiety, Content Validity, Grade Inflation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

Document Summary

College entrance tests: the sat reasoning test. Most widely used test for college entrance. People taking the sat with the norms from 1941 (these norms were used from 1941 to. 1980), tend to score 20 to 80 points lower for each section (embarrassing) The test was then renormed using 1. 8 million students and converting raw scores to standard scores with a mean of 500 and a sd of 100. Due to its length (3 hours and 45 minutes), it is very disadvantageous for people with disabilities. Has poor predictive values for people who score in the middle range. Accounts for about 16% of the variance in gpa scores (first year only: cooperative school and college ability test (scat) Second to the sat but falling out of favor is the scat. No advantage of using the scat over the sat: the american college test (act) Updated in 2005 and quite useful for non-native english speakers.