The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT and ACT

ISBN-13: 9780807763315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 213 str.

Joseph A. Soares

Spis treści

• Contents (Tentative)
• Preface —Joseph A. Soares
• Introduction: "Toss That Test" —Joseph A. Soares
• Part I: The case against The SAT/ACT
• 1. Norm-Referenced Tests and Race-Blind Admissions: The Case for Eliminating the SAT and ACT at the University of California —Saul Geiser
• 2. Wealth's Influence on College Enrollment and Completion —Paul Fain
• 3. How the SAT Creates Built-in Headwinds: An Educational and Legal Analysis of Disparate Impact —William C. Kidder and Jay Rosner
• 4. The "Landscape" or "Dashboard Adversity Index" Distraction: A Clumsy Attempt at Damage Control —Joseph A. Soares
• Part II: Admissions without requiring test scores
• 5. The SAT/ACT Optional Admissions Growth Surge: More Colleges Conclude "Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit" —Robert Schaeffer
• 6. Wake Forest's Ten Years of Test-Optional Admissions: A Review of Students Who Did Not Submit Versus Those Who Did —Michael DeWitt and Philip Handwerk
• 7. Defining Access: How Test-Optional Works —Steven T. Syverson, Valerie W. Franks, and William C. Hiss
• Final Thoughts: The FBI Sting and Moments That Define a Profession —Jon Boekkenstedt
• About the Contributors
• Index