Minority Contributions to the SAT Score Turnaround¶
Wainer, H. (1986). Minority Contributions to the SAT Score Turnaround: An Example of Simpson's Paradox. Journal of Educational Statistics, 239-244.
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- Simpson–Yule Effect
- In education policy, a district can show flat aggregate test-score trends while every demographic subgroup improves, because the demographic mix is shifting toward historically lower-scoring groups — a compositional shift.
This sourceDocuments the education-policy aggregation paradox: SAT scores rose within both White and nonwhite subgroups (8 and 15 points) while the overall mean rose only 7, because the composition of test-takers shifted toward historically lower-scoring groups.
- In education policy, a district can show flat aggregate test-score trends while every demographic subgroup improves, because the demographic mix is shifting toward historically lower-scoring groups — a compositional shift.
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