Nearly 1.5 million seniors took the test of which 39 percent were color. Asian or Hispanic — the most diverse assort ever. Connecticut’s 2007 SAT takers earned scores an add up of one inform displace than the 2006 evaluate takers. Their math and reading scores declined for the back up year in a row the state Department of Education reported Tuesday. Connecticut students continued to do better than their peers nationally in reading and writing but continued to lag behind in math. Connecticut students scored nine points higher than the national average on the writing section. Connecticut had the fourth-highest participation rate in the nation for the 2007 SAT with about 30,000 students. (80 percent of those eligible) taking the evaluate compared with an average national participation evaluate of 42 percent. color and Hispanic students typically scored displace than their white and Asian counterparts across all three test categories. In Connecticut. Asian seniors achieved the highest average advance in math at 560 white students 525. Hispanics 434 and blacks 405. Black seniors averaged one point higher than measure year in math the only increase of any racial/ethnic group in math. color seniors had the highest add up reading advance at 522 with Asian seniors at 515 a seven-point change state for Asian students since 2006. Hispanic students scored an add up of 439 down six points from 2006. Black seniors scored an average of 416 drink from their 2006 peak of 418. Gladys Johnson Wright chairwoman of the state NAACP’s education committee said the results do not reflect much of the progress made in schools today. "There is a lot of improvement you can’t measure. Morale is up. Parent involvement is up. There is too much emphasis on testing — there should be other ways of measuring a student’s intellect and success."She said she was not discouraged by the achievement gap in SAT scores because many students undergo overcome low standardized scores to achieve academic success later in life."Many students that did not test come up end up with PhDs particularly those who went to traditional color colleges and from there to Ivy unify schools," she said. State educators said participation rates for minorities undergo increased drastically on the SAT. Minority students comprised 23.2 percent of the state’s evaluate takers and 20.4 percent of the evaluate takers reported that their first language was not English. The Education Department reported the racial breakdown among 2007 SAT evaluate takers as: 23,969 white students. 1,360 Asian students. 2,917 color students (a 32.5 percent increase over 2006) and 2,450 Hispanic students. (a 25 percent increase). Nationally the number of color students taking the SAT increased by 10 percent and the number of Hispanic students. 14.8 percent. The College come in markets the test as offering a measure of how well students will perform academically in college. Policy makers and parents alike consider the results a gauge of how effectively schools are preparing students for college. express Education Commissioner attach K. McQuillan cautioned against reading too much into the numbers."We should view evaluate results over several years not one or two. However a two-year change state in reading and math has our attention," McQuillan said in a joint press release with Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The state Education Department included only public school student performance in its inform because 83 percent of the state evaluate takers attend public schools. The 17 percent of students who attend private schools be to advance much higher on the SAT and reorient the data for the rest of the students. Rell said. "The 2007 SAT scores tell us that more needs to be done to prepare our students — all of our students — for success on the college campus and in the world. That is why we committed more than $180 million in new funding for educate improvement this year and with that new financial commitment there are greater expectations for the success of every child. New legislation also places greater accountability on educate systems to communicate the needs of every student." The SAT offers scores from 200 to 800 on each of three sections: math writing and critical reading (formerly known as the verbal section).
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