An Intensive Look at SAT Scores

Kristen Roland
 Introduction
Looking for a relationship between Verbal SAT
and Math SAT scores
Looking for difference between Sex and SAT
scores
Exploring various comparisons between sex
and test scores, test scores to each others, and
if one set of test scores can predict another.
 Data
Contains 82 female and 80 male test-takers
Recorded Verbal test score and Math test
score
Created Total Score by adding Verbal and
Math score
Will be using Excel, and DDXL
 Math SAT Scores

Peak at 710
Data might be skewed to right
Denser between 650 and 800 and spread out
between 360 and 630.
 Verbal SAT Scores

Appears to be skewed to the right

2 Modes: about 600 and 670
Dense between 610 and 800
Spread between 310 and 610
Normally Distributed
 Math and Verbal Scores by Sex

Males did better on Math scores, Females did better on

Verbal by median
Male and Female had same IQR range for Math but
different for Verbal.
Females had larger range for Math and Males had
larger range for Verbal
 Color Comparison by Sex

Males did better on Verbal vs.

Math and Verbal vs. Total
Females did better on Mat vs.
Verbal and Math vs. Total
Blue is Female, Red is Male
 Verbal vs. Math Correlation

Correlation Coefficient: .685

Positive Linear Relationship
Fairly Strong Relationship
 Verbal or Math vs. Total

Math vs. Total Correlation Coefficient: .917

Positive very strong Linear Relationship
Verbal vs. Total Correlation Coefficient: .919
Positive very strong Linear Relationship
 Verbal Predict Math

Predicted about 47% of our variation.

 Math Predict Verbal

Predicted about 47% of our variation

 Math Predict Total

Predicted about 84% of our variation

 Verbal Predict Total

Predicted 84.5% of our variation

 Recommendations
(This would be where you would remark on
your data if you felt that getting another
variable would have been helpful. If you ran
into any problems with your data, you would
also include it here.)
 Conclusion
Males perform better on Math scores
Females perform better on Verbal
When Math predict Verbal or Total, Females
performed better
When Verbal to predict Math or Total, Males
performed better
Best models were using Math or Verbal to
predict Total Scores
Neither males nor females dominate over the
other