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| Declining LSAT scores of Law School Applicants | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 15 2017, 03:35 AM (140 Views) | |
| George K | Jun 15 2017, 03:35 AM Post #1 |
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Interesting: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/06/proportion-of-law-school-applicants-with-lsats-160-are-down-35-since-2010.html I wonder what happened 2015-2016. |
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| Copper | Jun 15 2017, 06:08 AM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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People who owned cell phones for the full 4 years of college started taking the tests. |
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| Rainman | Jun 15 2017, 11:34 AM Post #3 |
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David Coleman was the lead in developing the Common Core curriculum. As that massive change was pushed across the country, he stepped down from that responsibility once completed, and became president of the College Board. As he stated, by 2016, the SAT, as well as AP in high school, would align with Common Core. The change would be reflected by a drop in scores, not unexpected. A very dangerous man. Whether I (or anyone) agrees with him or not, to allow one person such power over public education is not good. The English Language committee was large, as was the Math(s) committee where the lead writer was Jason Zimba. Zimba was a pal of Coleman, they were at Oxford when they met. Both were paid by Achieve, a non-profit set up by the National Governor's Association, and the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers), Achieve Inc. administered Common Core nationwide. And for anyone that counters that Common Core is not a curriculum -- when summative testing via SBAC or PARCC becomes linked to Common Core, it then indeed becomes an entire, prescribed curriculum. Anyway, the change in SAT and likely LSAT(?) in 2016 was to create a seamless education system from elementary school to college, with all students receiving the same, common core education regardless of location (philosophically globalist, where eventually everyone in the world would have the same common educational background in language arts and math, and then other subjects as well over time). ACT is becoming more popular as opposed to the SAT, for obvious reasons. Not sure all of the above is right. Some of it might be. |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 15 2017, 02:26 PM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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I wouldn't think SAT scores should be expected to drop, my understanding is they recalibrate the score with each new test. |
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| Rainman | Jun 15 2017, 02:50 PM Post #5 |
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Yes, but that takes years. For 3-8, and then typically grade 11, the format completely changed in the summative assessment. In the "old" days pre-2010/2012 (depending on the State), the correct answer was the assessment. In the newer SBAC/PARCC, the method of getting to the correct answer can be more important than the correct answer. Very difficult if not impossible to compare the two. Easier to just state ahead of time, "test scores will decrease" so as not to have to deal with the issue of whether the test is accurately measuring a new curriculum that was never piloted in the first place. |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 16 2017, 02:44 AM Post #6 |
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MAMIL
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Could it just be the smart kids are moving away from law school? |
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| Axtremus | Jun 16 2017, 02:46 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Where are the smart kids moving too? |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 16 2017, 06:09 AM Post #8 |
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MAMIL
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Please correct your spelling and re-submit. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| George K | Jun 16 2017, 06:11 AM Post #9 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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