QUESTIONING THE ADMISSIONS ASSUMPTIONS

QUESTIONING THE ADMISSIONS ASSUMPTIONS
New study sees high school grades as a far better predictor
than SAT scores, but notes large gap in ability to predict
anything.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/19/admit

[My own experiences in this domain began in a school where my English teacher was chair of the verbal section of the SATs and my math teacher a member of the math committee. Each gave us a short course in taking the exams. We did well. My English teacher's honors class scored about a half dozen in the top 10 scores nationally. Later I profited greatly from this training. I participated in a practice GRE test in our sophomore college year (that much closer to the old stuff for which we had been crammed). We all did well -- generally in the top 1-2%. Such was most helpful with graduate school applications. The bottom line here is that one can be prepped for such exams -- and what an injustice to those who are not! Dewey had it right -- we all have our own particular types of genius. But his rat studies replacement at Columbia, Edward Thorndike, steered us into the testing maze:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thorndike

Good for rats, but not for humans.

Ed Kent
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