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Alternative Admissions Criteria in the 80's.

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Grant, Marvin L.; Singleton, Roy, Jr. – Negro Educational Review, 1982

Emphasizes that college admissions criteria based on test scores that tend to be correlated with socioeconomic status are biased against racial/ethnic minorities. Suggests that alternative criteria might consider students' personality traits. (Author/MJL)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Black Students, College Admission

Assessing Measures of Contact Theory.

Brown, William R.; Patchen, Martin – 1982

This paper consolidates findings from two related studies: William Brown's research on the predictive ability of measures of early and non-high school interracial contact/opportunities that appear to affect interracial attitudes and behaviors in high school; and Martin Patchen's investigation in Indianapolis, Indiana high schools analyzing the…

Descriptors: Blacks, Childhood Attitudes, High School Students, High Schools