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SAT Wars: The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions
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Soares, Joseph A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
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,…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Educational Research, College Admission, College Presidents
Standardized Testing: One Size Fits All? A WisKids Count Special Report.
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Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Inc., Madison. – 2002
This report from the WisKids Count project, instead of being the usual annual data book about an array of issues affecting children, is a collection of essays that take a critical look at the practice of standardized testing and the status of testing in Wisconsin. In the 2002-2001 school year, more than 250,000 Wisconsin children in public schools…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Commission on Policy Development in Public Education Annual Report.
National Alliance of Black School Educators, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
This annual report of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) Commission on Policy Development in Public Education presents six position papers by NABSE and guest authors. The papers, and their authors, are (1) "The Quest for Excellence/Pupil Self-Esteem" (Carole Hardeman); (2) "Engineering Education for Minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Athletics, Black Students, Educational Policy
News and Views.
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Cross, Theodore, Ed.; And Others – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1996
Presents a collection of articles on the black experience in postsecondary education, including issues regarding black achievement, black faculty, enrollment, politics and racism, black status in Ivy League schools, and affirmative action. The black experience at several specific colleges, including Wharton, UCLA, Kean College, Howard College, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Black Colleges
For Today's Students: Better and More Accountable Schools.
Youth Policy, 1991
Includes "School Choice: An Overview"; "Public School Choice: An Overview"; "Would Choice + Competition Yield Quality Education?" (Elmore); "National Testing: An Overview"; "Measuring Schools Is Not the Same as Improving Them" (Darling-Hammond); "Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three..."…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Graded Objectives in Modern Languages.
Harding, Ann; And Others – 1980
This book covers various aspects of the "graded objectives movement" in England and is intended to help teachers understand the ideas behind the movement and to form working groups to implement it. Graded objectives are understood as those objectives which represent steps in a continuum that could be attempted by all learners who would…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Committees, Curriculum Design
Language Testing in Japan.
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Brown, James Dean, Ed.; Yamashita, Sayoko Okada, Ed. – 1995
Papers on second language testing in Japan include: "Differences Between Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests" (James Dean Brown); "Criterion-Referenced Test Construction and Evaluation" (Dale T. Griffe); "Behavioral Learning Objectives as an Evaluation Tool" (Judith A. Johnson); "Developing Norm-…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, College Entrance Examinations