The bias SATs

In the article, Correcting the SAT's Ethnic and Social-Class Bias: A Method for Re estimating SAT Scores, by Roy O. Freedle, he discusses how to change to cultural bias of our nations standard on college admission. He feels that the SAT's a basis on two levels culturally and statistically. By using a reformed scoring idea, R-SAT's, Freedle feels that more minority students may enter prestigious colleges. Different cultures view things differently leading to much different test scores. The highest difference in scores in in the verbal part of the SAT, which is often because of cultural differences. Freedle shows many different studies that show that most of the time the African American students do better on the hard questions by whites in volume preform better. There is also evidence that lower income white students would benefit by the R-SAT way of scoring. This article takes a hard look at the test that every high school student must face. It is time that we make college a fair fight.