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Peer reviewedAlderman, Donald L.; Powers, Donald E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1980
Control groups' scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test-Verbal were compared to scores of secondary school students who were exposed to their school's special test preparation programs. Special preparation resulted in an overall difference of eight points on the total score, corresponding to one additional correctly answered item. (Author/GDC)
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