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The brief reviews key SAT content changes and uses Grade 12 student retest data from October 2005. 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The new SAT is longer and measures different content and skills than the old SAT (College Board, 2005) .  \nChanges to the SAT content include—  \n• replacing the verbal subtest with a critical reading subtest,  \n• adding Algebra 2 content to the math subtest,• eliminating analogies and quantitative  \ncomparisons; and  \n• adding a new writing subtest with a studentwritten essay (College Board, 2004) .  \nThe College Board reports that SAT scores for the old and new versions of the verbal/critical reading and math subtests are equated (College Board, 2005) . Thus, what a student earns on the new test is the same as what he or she would have earned on the old version (Kobrin & Schmidt, 2005; Liu, Feigenbaum,& Dorans, 2005) . Still, some district leaders asked for additional verification that the equating processes used by the College Board produce comparable SAT scores for students enrolled in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) .  \nThe purpose of this research brief is to examine whether MCPS students in the Class of 2006 are performing equally well on the old and new versions of the SAT verbal/critical reading and math subtests.  \nMethodology  \nStudents enrolled in Grade 12 in October 2005 (MCPS Class of 2006) who took the SAT more than once were assigned to one of three groups of SAT test takers: 183 students who took the old SAT more than once, 2,122 students who did not take the old SAT but took the new SAT more than once, and 1,095 students who took the old SAT once and the new SAT one or more times. For students in the third retest group, SAT scores were reported for the  \nold SAT (1st SAT) and the first administration of the new SAT (2nd SAT) .  \nSAT subtest scores are reported in increments of 10 on scales that range from 200 to 800. Nationally, students’ combined verbal and math SAT scores improve an average of 25 to 30 points when students take the SAT a second time (College Board, 2004; Nathan & Camara, 1998) . Because the new and old SATs are equated, the average changes observed upon retesting should be the same regardless of the version of the SAT taken by the student (Kobrin & Schmidt, 2005) . Further, the correlations of scores students received on the old and new versions of the SAT should be similar to the correlations of 0.95 and higher observed nationally (Kobrin & Schmidt, 2005) .  \nResults  \nThe differences in the SAT scores of MCPS students that result when students take the SAT a second time are comparable with the national average of 25 to 30 points for students who took the old SAT twice. Evidence suggests that the new SAT scores are comparable to the old SAT scores for MCPS students because the average improvement upon retesting isabout the same regardless of the version of the SAT taken by the student (Table 1) .  \nTable 1  \nMean Differences in the Combined Verbal/Critical Reading and Math Scores of the MCPS Class of 2006 (as of October) Who Took the SAT Twice  \n\n| Student Group | Took\u003Cbr>Old SAT | Took\u003Cbr>New SAT | Score\u003Cbr>Diff.a |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Old SAT | 1st 2nd |  | +27.5 |\n| New SAT |  | 1st 2nd | +27.5 |\n| Both Versions | \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>1st | \u003Cbr> 2nd  | +28.1 |\n\na Average improvement in combined verbal/critical reading and math score when student took the SAT the second time.  \nStudents’ scores improved an average of 27.5 points when they took the old version of the SAT a second time (Table 1) . The average increases on the verbal  \nOffice of Information and Organizational Systems 1 Performance on the New SAT  \n(11.0 points) and math (16.5 points) subtests were equivalent to students answering one or two more items correctly.  \nStudents’ scores improved an average of 27.5 points when they took the new version of ","cbCaing5YcTJeEva","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaing5YcTJeEva","pdf",34359,"English","# Background\n# Methodology\n# Results\n# References","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this research brief?\",\"answer\":\"To determine whether MCPS students in the Class of 2006 perform equally well on the old and new versions of the SAT verbal/critical reading and math subtests.\"},{\"question\":\"How were MCPS students grouped for analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Students in Grade 12 in October 2005 who took the SAT more than once were assigned to groups based on whether they retook the old SAT, retook the new SAT, or took both versions with specified testing order.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the results show about MCPS performance across SAT versions?\",\"answer\":\"MCPS students’ average score improvements on retesting are comparable to national expectations, and the correlations on verbal/critical reading and math are slightly lower than national but still provide additional evidence that scores are equated across versions.\"}]","Performance of MCPS Students on the New SAT - Research Brief | PDF"]