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SAT Wars - The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Joseph A. Soares is Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Klappentext 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 standardized 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 worlds most-cited living authority on educational research. As we continue to debate the use and misuse of standardized testing, SAT Wars will be important reading for a wide audience, including college administrators and faculty, high school guidance counselors, education journalists, and parents.

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Authors Joseph A Soares, Joseph A. Soares, Joseph A. (EDT) Soares
Assisted by Joseph A. Soares (Editor)
Publisher Teachers College Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.09.2011
 
EAN 9780807752623
ISBN 978-0-8077-5262-3
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Subject Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system

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