CollegeandCareerReadinessBenchmarks
EachassessmentintheSATSuitehasanassociatedsetof
metricscalledtheCollegeandCareerReadiness
Benchmarks.
·TheSATMathbenchmarkisthesectionscoreassociated
witha75%chanceofearningatleastaCinfirst-semester,
credit-bearing,college-levelcoursesinalgebra,statistics,
precalculus,orcalculus.
·TheSATEvidence-BasedReadingandWriting(ERW)
benchmarkisassociatedwitha75%chanceofearningat
leastaCinfirst-semester,credit-bearing,college-level
coursesinhistory,literature,socialscience,orwriting.
Thegrade-levelbenchmarkscoresforPSAT-related
assessmentsarebasedonexpectedstudentgrowthtoward
theSATbenchmarksateachgrade.WhileSATbenchmarks
indicatelikelihoodofsuccessincollege,grade-level
benchmarksindicatewhetherastudentisontrackforcollege
andcareerreadinessfortheirgrade.Thebenchmarksareset
toreflecttypicalannualgrowthfromyeartoyearfrom8th
through12thgrades.
ThecurrentSATSuitebenchmarkoutcomesshouldnotbe
comparedagainstresultsfromtheoldSATorPSAT/NMSQT,
asthescorescaleandbenchmarkdefinitionshavechanged.
Benchmarkstatisticsarereportediftherearetenormore
studentsinagrouporsubgroup.
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