July 02, 2008

Table For Sailer Is Right: Measure School Achievement Relative To IQ! By Hugh McInnish

Alabama gives both the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), which measures student achievement, and the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT), which measures a student’s aptitude, in other words his IQ. We defined a term we called "Teaching Effectiveness," which is the quotient of achievement divided by ability (multiplied by 100 to give it a convenient scale).

Chart Based on Alabama State Department of Education test scores (actually test rankings expressed in percentiles relative to a normalized national sample) for the 25 elementary schools in Huntsville, AL.

	School	SAT	OLSAT	TE	%Black

1	Hampton Cove	78	82	95	2.2
2	Mt. Gap	79	80	99	3.4
3	Farley	68	71	96	4.5
4	Jones Valley	82	84	98	5.4
5	Weatherly	85	83	100	6
6	Challenger	80	83	96	6.4
7	Monte Sano	80	74	108	8
8	Chapman	61	61	100	15.2
9	Chaffee	84	85	99	15.7
10	Whitesburg	80	76	105	18
11	Blossomwood	68	73	93	22.2
12	Morris	51	51	100	44.4
13	Ridgecrest	52	50	104	45.5
14	McDonnell	50	50	100	57.8
15	Lincoln	49	47	104	58.2
16	East Clinton	57	60	95	64.4
17	West Huntsville	33	30	110	78.8
18	Highlands	52	53	98	81.9
19	Univ. Place	48	55	87	82.4
20	Montview	47	46	102	89.2
21	Colonial Hills	45	46	98	91.2
22	Terry Hts.	39	36	108	94.8
23	West Mastin Lake	39	37	105	96
24	Lakewood	38	34	112	97
25	Rolling Hills	41	44	93	98.6

Hugh McInnish [email him] is a consulting engineer and publisher of supressednews.com.