The composite SAT scores ranged from 980 to 1600 with a mean of 1412.55. The SATV mean was 682.93, ranging from a low of 420 to 12 scores of 800. The SATM mean was 729.62, ranging from a low of 560 to 46 scores of 800. National and IMSA overall mean scores are reported in the table below. Significant differences in scores were found with respect to several demographic variables.
Significant findings are boldfaced.
This is consistent with most findings in the literature. The difference in SAT-M scores is smaller than usually found between genders, but given the high levels of the scores and the resulting ceiling effects, such smaller differences are expected. As is consistently found in the literature, demographic differences with respect to race were highly significant. Again, the differences were smaller than those found in the literature, probably due to the high levels of the scores. Parental education, as shown below, explained a small but usually significant amount of variance in SAT scores.