Full Description
This update to SAT Wars provides new evidence in the case against standardized college entry tests, including the experiences of test-optional colleges. The Scandal of Standardized Tests sheds significant light on key problems such as: Are the tests stronger proxies for race and family income today than they were 20 years ago? Does going test-optional promote racial and economic diversity? Are there any differences in academic records between students admitted without test scores and those with them? How does testing figure into race-sensitive admissions legal controversies? Why is the College Board's "environmental dashboard" inadequate as a way to create a fair playing field? How are the odds of attending and graduating from college stacked against low-income youths and racial minorities? What does the FBI Varsity Blues sting tell us about college admissions in America? Book Features:
Provides 25 years of data on California showing how the correlation of test scores with race has grown over time while their predictive powers have declined.
Shows how the disparate results of SAT/ACT scores by race provide grounds for a constitutional challenge to the use of those tests.
Provides an overview of our current national situation regarding college applications, attendance, and graduation rates according to family income and college major.
Offers a devastating critique of the College Board's "adversity index."
Includes a national balance sheet on the experiences of test-optional colleges.
Contents
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
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