doesn't this open the door for cheating? Wealthy people renting apts in really bad neighborhoods? Or is it all about the school they are attending?
According to the College Board presentation
Environmental Context Dashboard: A Scalable, Systematic Approach to Educational Disadvantage (p11), the components of the adversity score are as follows:
(1) Put a student’s achievement on the SAT and AP in the context of
their high school:
Scores in Context
SAT Scores
• Range scores for graduates at the high school
• Averages for students enrolling in college
• Share of students taking the SAT
AP Opportunity
• AP course availability
• AP participation
• Average number of AP exams taken at the high
school
• Average AP score
(2) Measures of the environment a student has faced given where they live and learn
Neighborhood and High School Adversity Measures
• College going behavior
• Crime risk (neighborhood only)
• Family stability
• Educational attainment
• Housing stability
• Median family income
The data sources (p12) are
National Data
American Community Survey
• Median Income
• Single Parent
• Education Level, ESL
• Housing statistics
FBI Crime Statistics
College Board Data
• College going behavior
• SAT achievement
• % Free and Reduce Lunch
• AP Opportunity
• Educational Neighborhoods
Given this data, they then
2. Combine appropriate measures to generate:
• Neighborhood adversity values at the Census Tract Level
• High School adversity values for each high school
Then they
3. Calculate Overall Adversity for each student
A student is tagged with the adversity measures for their high school and neighborhood, which are averaged to create a nationally normed measure between 0 and 100.
