The relationship ethnicity and socio-economic status with SAT scores is politically controversial. This study examines those relationships by adding a parent's occupational prestige and parent's educational variable set to about a third of the cases in an existing data set of 3000 Worcester high school students that included their learning styles and their high school programs as well as ethnic codes. The SES-SAT relationship proved not to be very strong in Worcester, but race and ethnicity were strong predictors of SAT scores. Hence, race differences cannot be explained in terms of SES, but SES can largely be explained in terms of the level of challenge in the high school program of studies taken by the student.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Zhu, Bai Lan

Subject

• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02E013I

Keyword

• Academic achievement
• Minorities--Education
• Multiculturalism

Advisor

• Wilkes, John M.

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright