College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Sep 08
  

  growing concerns that the frenzy over standardized college admissions tests is misshaping secondary education and feeding a billion-dollar test-prep industry that encourages students to try to game the tests.

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  • what is needed is a new achievement test, pitched to a broad group of students, that would predict college grades as well as or better than available tests.

    Using such an achievement test in admissions would “encourage high schools to broaden and improve curricula,”
  • test preparation and coaching results in an increase of 20 to 30 points on the SAT, which it calls “a modest gain (on the old 1600 scale)
  • “It would be much better for the country,” Mr. Fitzsimmons said in an interview, “to have students focusing on high school courses that, based on evidence, will prepare them well for college and also prepare them well for the real world beyond college, instead of their spending enormous amounts of time trying to game the SAT.”

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