纽约时报今天debate over standardized tests in college admissions

标考成绩和大学GPA正相关。“

A parable for our times

Higher education has a standardized-test problem, and it’s not the problem that many people think.

During the pandemic, dozens of colleges dropped the requirement that applicants take the SAT or ACT. Although administrators generally described the move as temporary, most colleges have since stuck to a test-optional policy.

But the loss of SAT and ACT scores has become a problem, administrators have told me. Without test scores, admissions officers sometimes struggle to distinguish between applicants who are likely to thrive at selective colleges and those likely to struggle. Why? Because high school grades do not always provide enough information, especially because of grade inflation in recent years.

As Christina Paxson, the president of Brown University, recently wrote, “Standardized test scores are a much better predictor of academic success than high school grades.”

 

You can read the article here.

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• 那是当然。我们这里gradschool评分三四分的普高学生，大部分孩子SAT就考1100到1200 -Pilsung- ♂ (161 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:17:54

• 布朗校长是引用其教授统计，并不是自己认为。校长文章中粗粗又红红的大字写着：“Requiring test scores -成功的77- ♂ (241 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:20:41

• 时报原文有说MIT is more economically diverse than many other elite -chenyu09- ♀ (15 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:25:37

• 第一图是布朗和大猫2017-2022 数据上周公布出来的 -chenyu09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:23:39

• 没看懂这个图。SAT曲线里大学gpa最低3.1，GPA曲线里大学gpa最低3.3。好像二图用的数据不一样。 -成功的77- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:30:10

• 可能是高中GPA所有学生都有，而标考成绩不是都有？ -chenyu09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:35:40

• 靠谱 -成功的77- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:52:01

• 这个图明确说明藤校分很水 -Amita- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 16:51:34

• 怎么看出来的？ -BGM- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 17:48:22

• 哈哈高中不分好坏3.2gpa到了藤校平均都3.4，说明藤校比高中平均值水啊。紫檀我的分析能力一级棒 -Amita- ♂ (167 bytes) () 01/09/2024 postreply 06:21:27

• 纽约时报要交钱才能看， 这儿不要：） -yddad- ♂ (201 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 17:04:30

• 谢谢链接。此外纽约时报上有评论文章我贴了部分，对标考是利好的 -chenyu09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 17:13:36

• 俺一直比较奇怪，为啥娃学校去年秋开始除新生外初中到高中10,11年级都要测PSAT,可能已经事先得到消息了,或疫情结束了 -chenyu09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 17:05:42

• 这种小孩子都知道的，还要讨论吗？皇帝新衣，谁都不敢说破。 -unitedb- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 17:39:46

• 这是一篇很好的文章。比较了标考与全国中小学摸底测验成绩高度一致，说明成绩高者不是通过补习而虚高。 -无言无语无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2024 postreply 18:23:39