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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Zwick |
| ISBN: | 0415948347 9780415948340 0415948355 9780415948357 9780203463932 0203463935 |
| OCLC Number: | 53871573 |
| Description: | xxi, 367 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A history of admissions testing / Nicholas Lemann -- Achievement versus aptitude in college admissions / Richard C. Atkinson -- Standardized tests and American education / Richard Ferguson -- Doing what is important in education / Gaston Caperton -- Remarks on president Atkinson's proposal on admissions tests / Manuel N. Gómez -- Aptitude for college: the importance of reasoning tests for minority admissions / David F. Lohman -- A historical perspective on the content of the SAT / Ida Lawrence, ...[et al.] -- Innovation and change in the SAT: a design framework for future college admission tests / Howard T. Everson -- Commentary on part I: admissions testing in a disconnected K-16 system / Michael W. Kirst -- Rethinking the use of undergraduate admissions tests: the case of the University of California / Dorothy A. Perry, Michael T. Brown, Barbara A. Sawrey -- UC and the SAT: predictive validity and differential impact of the SAT I and SAT II at the University of California / Saul Geiser, Roger E. Studley -- Commentary on part II: changing University of California admissions practices: a participant-observer perspective / Eva L. Baker -- Equitable access and academic preparation for higher education: lessons learned from college access programs / Patricia Gándara -- Group differences in standardized test scores and other educational indicators / Amy Elizabeth Schmidt, Wayne J. Camara -- Is the SAT a "wealth test"? the link between educational achievement and socioeconomic status / Rebecca Zwick -- Commentary on part III: differential achievement: seeking causes, cures, and construct validity / Michael E. Martinez -- The utility of the SAT I and SAT II for admissions decisions in California and the nation / Jennifer L. Kobrin, Wayne J. Camara, Glenn B. Milewski -- Replacing reasoning tests with achievement tests in university admissions: does it make a difference? / Brent Bridgeman, Nancy Burton, Frederick Cline -- Differential validity and prediction: race and sex differences in college admissions testing / John W. Young -- The effects of using ACT composite scores and high school averages on college admissions decisions for ethnic groups / Julie Noble -- Inequality, student achievement, and college admissions: a remedy for underrepresentation / Roger E. Studley -- Reassessing college admissions: examining tests and admitting alternatives / Christina Perez -- Commentary on part IV: predicting student performance in college / Robert L. Linn. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rebecca Zwick. |
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