LOL. The SAT was not helping either of those ethnicities. Stop spending your money on standardized testing, admit them as best you can, and if there are holes that need addressing, invest in them when they get here instead of thinking of them merely as quotas to be met.SpartanBear20 said:
Thursday's print edition of the Daily Californian published a guest commentary by a student named Maria Richards that had been published online around a week earlier: UC, please keep SAT, ACT. Richards made a solid defense of standardized testing:Quote:
...the UC system's decision was made in an outright disregard for the opinions of the UC Academic Senate's leadership assembly, consisting of the top professors from each UC campus, who voted unanimously in a 51-0 decision to keep the SAT/ACT.
The UC Academic Council's Standardized Testing Task Force conducted 18 months of research and analysis, producing a report in favor of keeping the SAT/ACT. A closer analysis reveals that eliminating the SAT/ACT will hinder the ability of colleges to predict applicants' future college success, rendering their admissions systems more prone to bias and subjectivity and more likely to adversely affect low-income applicants. This will disproportionately harm Black and Latinx applicants, who, according to a 2018 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, on average, have lower incomes than whites and Asians do.
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Without the SAT/ACT, there would be no objective test that reveals a schools' inadequacies, let alone a common yardstick to measure student achievement, handing schools a free pass to inflate grades without getting caught. A 2018 study by Seth Gershenson, an associate professor at American University, shows that grade inflation is more prevalent in affluent schools than it is in low-income schools.
Parents of rich students tend to wield more influence over schools and use it to pressure schools to inflate grades. Wealthier students can take AP or IB courses in order to boost their GPAs, while those same courses are usually not offered at low-income schools.
Grades are subject to more manipulation, which skews the playing field in favor of those who have the means and connections to game the system. Wasn't eliminating the SAT/ACT supposed to level the playing field?
Grades should no more be a sole measure of a student's readiness for school than anything else. Everything needs to be measured in evaluating the whole person.
