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SAT Wars: The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions
Joseph A. Soares (Ed.)
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Description for SAT Wars: The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions
Paperback. Editor(s): Soares, Joseph A. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JNMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Teachers´ College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807752623
SKU
V9780807752623
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99-20
About Joseph A. Soares (Ed.)
Joseph A. Soares is Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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