Editing SAT (section)

=== Association with types of schooling ===
While there seems to be evidence that private schools tend to produce students who do better on standardized tests such as the ACT or the SAT, Keven Duncan and Jonathan Sandy showed, using data from the [[National Longitudinal Survey of Youth|National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth]], that when student characteristics, such as age, [[#Association with race and ethnicity|race]], and [[#Sex differences|sex]] (7%), [[#Association with family structures|family background]] (45%), [[#Association with educational and societal standings and outcomes|school quality]] (26%), and other factors were taken into account, the advantage of private schools diminished by 78%. The researchers concluded that students attending private schools already had the attributes associated with high scores on their own.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Duncan|first1=Keven C.|last2=Sandy|first2=Jonathan|date=Spring 2007|title=Explaining the Performance Gap between Public and Private School Students|journal=Eastern Economic Journal|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan Journals|volume=33|issue=2|pages=177–191|doi=10.1057/eej.2007.16|jstor=20642346|s2cid=55272711|url=http://web.holycross.edu/RePEc/eej/Archive/Volume33/V33N2P177_191.pdf|access-date=June 19, 2021|archive-date=July 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706161207/https://web.holycross.edu/RePEc/eej/Archive/Volume33/V33N2P177_191.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>