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Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissionsreviewed by Gail Corrado - 2004 Title: Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions Author(s): Rebecca Zwick (Editor) Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415948355, Pages: 367, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in
University Admissions, edited by Rebecca Zwick, is a collection
of essays that grew out of a conference on college admissions
generally and the SAT more particularly. The conference was, in
part, an opportunity for informed public debate on the issues
raised in a speech given by the University of California (UC)
president Richard Atkinson in February of 2001 in which he voiced
his opposition to the use of the SAT I test in UC college
admissions. The book was, in the editor’s words,
“to be an edited and reviewed compilation of the strongest
conference contributions that would be accessible to a wide
readership …” The resulting volume
contains several very important essays that help us understand the
complex set of issues that surround the problem of assessing a
student’s readiness to succeed in college. The book is
a worthwhile contribution to any library on the topic, but it is
also very annoying to read. Compilations, even those... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Gail Corrado
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail Author GAIL CORRADO is a Fellow of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research explores whether changes in the way discrimination is practiced invalidates the way standardized tests are checked for bias. She received her Ph.D in Public Policy (specializing in educational policy) from UNC in 2003, her MBA from the University of Chicago in 1987 and she is a trained school psychologist.
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