Coaching for the SAT: A Summary of the Summaries and an Update
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
- Vol. 12 (2), 24-30
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3992.1993.tb00530.x
Abstract
Why is it important to investigate the effectiveness of coaching for a test such as the SAT? How can you evaluate the effectiveness of coaching? What are some common misconceptions? What do we know and what is still unclear about the effects of coaching? What can we tell students and their families about the results of coaching studies ?This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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