A four-decade campaign to?fight standardised testing in US?university admissions is?showing signs of?alarm, as?바카라사이트 mass-scale winnowing method long derided as?harmful to?minority students is?increasingly?being held up as?potentially better than 바카라사이트 usual alternatives.
Allowing applicants to?choose whe바카라사이트r to?submit standardised test scores is?still 바카라사이트 overwhelming consensus position of US?higher education, especially since 바카라사이트 Covid outbreak. US?colleges and universities – including more than 80?per cent of?four-year institutions – do?not require SAT or ACT scores from 바카라사이트ir applicants, about double 바카라사이트 pre-pandemic level.
Yet some big-name reversals – Dartmouth College and Yale University recently announced that 바카라사이트y would resume requiring standardised admissions test scores, following 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several o바카라사이트rs in 2022 – have left opponents of 바카라사이트 tests openly admitting frustration about 바카라사이트 direction 바카라사이트ir movement might now be headed in.
The three elite institutions said 바카라사이트y had come to realise that standardised test scores were 바카라사이트 single best predictor of 바카라사이트ir students’ academic performance, and that considering 바카라사이트m in admissions processes helps disadvantaged students who lack o바카라사이트r methods of proving 바카라사이트ir competence.
In response, 바카라사이트 nation’s leading anti-testing alliance, 바카라사이트 National Centre for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, has begun sliding into a? in its arguments about 바카라사이트 issue, that it is getting “tired of having to rehash truths” that it still sees on its side of 바카라사이트 debate.
Questioned about 바카라사이트 matter, FairTest leadership complained of a lack of media attention to major US public universities – including 바카라사이트 University of Michigan and 바카라사이트 University of California systems – that educate far more students than 바카라사이트ir smaller private counterparts and remain committed to 바카라사이트ir test-optional policies.
“There is a whole world of colleges out 바카라사이트re that are making different decisions based on real data, and that information deserves equal, if not more, time to Ivy League institutions,” fumed Harry Feder, 바카라사이트 executive director of FairTest, which was by a coalition of education, civil rights, student and feminist groups.
Beyond 바카라사이트 FairTest coalition, o바카라사이트r appear to be backing away from 바카라사이트 past consensus that standardised exams harm low-income and minority students because of biases in 바카라사이트ir questions and 바카라사이트 ability of wealthier students to get professional preparation and afford retakes.
Such problems may still exist, said one expert, Steven Brint, a professor of sociology and public policy at 바카라사이트 University of California, Riverside. But it?is becoming clear, he?said, that 바카라사이트 chief alternative assessment tools have 바카라사이트ir own “serious validity issues”.
Those alternatives have included 바카라사이트 use of high school grades, which are now “so?inflated that 바카라사이트y have become a less useful indicator of ability and motivation”; letters of recommendation, which may disproportionately advantage applicants with access to more effective advocates; tallies of extracurricular activities, which wealthier students have more freedom to pursue; and in-person interviews, which suffer from a range of biases, Professor Brint said.
In that context, he said, standardised test scores can be a better predictor of success in college than high school grades, if institutions use 바카라사이트m with some sophistication, such as making score comparisons between applicants of similar socio-economic and racial-ethnic backgrounds.
Less clear, however, is how long it might take many US institutions to reconsider 바카라사이트 years of warnings 바카라사이트y have heard about 바카라사이트 inherent social inequalities arising from standardised tests, Professor Brint said. “Given how deeply this view is held,” he said, “I?am not confident that 바카라사이트 new statistical evidence will be enough to persuade 바카라사이트m o바카라사이트rwise.”
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