| Because the SAT writing test is so new we simply don't have enough data. You say the test "shows" this and that, but what data is there? Is there actually a correlation between success on the writing test and ability to write a "formal" essay? There is, as I understand it, a correlation between SAT scores and ones sucess their first year of college.
Until we know what the SAT writing test shows or doesn't show it's counterproductive to treat it as authoritative. |