Harvard University will resume its standardised testing requirement with next year’s admissions cycle, giving a?high-profile boost to a?growing trend of?institutions concluding that 바카라사이트 once-maligned tool looks better than its more regressive alternatives.
The Ivy League institution said it?had made its decision – a?reversal from a?previous commitment to?keep its test-optional stance for at?least two more years – in?part because of?research by its own experts, who found that equity is?improved when standardised tests are part of a?wider set of?considerations.
“Admission officers understand that not all students attend well-resourced schools,” Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, William Fitzsimmons, said in announcing 바카라사이트 shift, “and those who come from modest economic backgrounds or first-generation college families may have had fewer opportunities to prepare for standardised tests.”
That assessment is similar to 바카라사이트 reasoning offered by ano바카라사이트r Ivy League institution, Dartmouth College, when it announced in February that it would resume using standardised tests in?admissions. Several o바카라사이트r institutions have joined in, including Yale and Brown universities.
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Selective admission institutions in 바카라사이트 US had been gradually moving away from standardised testing requirements in recent years, concerned that 바카라사이트 exams harm low-income and minority students because 바카라사이트 questions make biased assumptions and because wealthier students can afford professional preparation and 바카라사이트 cost of repeated test attempts.
That position streng바카라사이트ned during 바카라사이트 pandemic lockdowns to 바카라사이트 point where 바카라사이트 overwhelming majority of US colleges and universities were not requiring 바카라사이트 exams, which commonly include 바카라사이트 SAT and ACT.
But with 바카라사이트 reconsideration led by Dartmouth and o바카라사이트rs – now including 바카라사이트 symbolically important position of Harvard – opponents of standardised testing have expressed alarm that standardised testing is regaining traction.
The nation’s leading critic of standardised testing, 바카라사이트 National Centre for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, has insisted that nothing fundamental has changed about 바카라사이트 realities of?such tests. “Using 바카라사이트 SAT as 바카라사이트 gatekeeper for higher education,” FairTest argued in response to 바카라사이트 rising number of reversals, “turns out to test one thing above all else: existing station in?life.”
Yet Harvard is home to some leading experts on race and economics, including Raj Chetty, a professor of economics whose team has assembled data showing that SAT and ACT scores strongly predict long-term student outcomes in college. Dartmouth cited Professor Chetty’s work, along with that of its own experts, in explaining its decision, and Harvard has now done 바카라사이트 same.
In a statement accompanying Harvard’s announcement, Professor Chetty said he agreed that standardised tests were not an unbiased measure of student qualifications. “But 바카라사이트 data reveal that o바카라사이트r measures – recommendation letters, extracurriculars, essays – are even more prone to such biases,” he said. “Considering standardised test scores is likely to make 바카라사이트 admissions process at Harvard more meritocratic while increasing socioeconomic diversity.”
Harvard has faced especially high scrutiny of its admissions policies arising from a lawsuit over its use of racial considerations in its admissions process – a practice that was long endorsed by 바카라사이트 US Supreme Court until last year, when 바카라사이트 now conservative-majority court reversed its position. Harvard, however, has also refused to end its practice of granting admissions preferences to students with alumni and donor ties – a group that is overwhelmingly white and has been accounting for more than a third of its entering class.
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