SAT Wars - The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions (Paperback)

What can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can check off the most correct boxes on a multiple-choice exam? Or are there better ways of measuring ability and promise? In this penetrating and revealing look at high-stakes standardised admissions tests, Joseph Soares demonstrates the far-reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change. SAT Wars presents a roadmap for rethinking college admissions that moves us past the statistically weak and socially divisive SAT/ACT. The author advocates for evaluation tools with a greater focus on what youth actually accomplish in high school as a more reliable indicator of qualities that really matter in one's life and to one's ability to contribute to society. This up-to-date book features contributions by well-known experts, including a piece from Daniel Golden, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in the Wall Street Journal on admissions, and a chapter on alternative tests from Robert Sternberg, who is the world's most-cited living authority on educational research. As we continue to debate the use and misuse of standardised testing, SAT Wars will be important reading for a wide audience, including college administrators and faculty, high school guidance counsellors, education journalists, and parents.

General

Imprint:	Teachers College Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	November 2011
Editors:	Joseph A. Soares
Foreword by:	David Hawkins
Dimensions:	154 x 229 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8077-5262-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Colleges of higher education Promotions
LSN:	0-8077-5262-2
Barcode:	9780807752623

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