This study involved two goals: to understand why SAT scores are related to SES, socioeconomic status, and to test the theory that academic preparation, not learning style, accounts for the SES relationship and its relationship to SAT performance. Three hundred and seventy-eight, out of 938 total, Worcester H. S. respondents provided useable SES data. SES operates on SAT scores through other variables with which it's correlated. Academic program data (from transcripts) was available for only 96 cases, but within the limits of the database, this variable showed the greatest promise as an explanation of the SES-SAT relationship.

• 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

• Noble, Gerald J.

Subject

• Community
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00A009I

Keyword

• Equality--Social aspects
• Academic achievement

Advisor

• Wilkes, John M.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright