Horn, Catherine. “Standardized Assessments and the Flow of Students Into the College Admission Pool.” Educational Policy 19.2 (2005): 331-348. Academic Search Complete. Web.7 Oct. 2015.
Summary & Evaluation: The SAT and ACT has become important measurements of students’ academic well-beings, and about 64% of the public universities has rated these standardised test scores as “very important” admissions criteria, because they believe that SAT and ACT are “objective” measures rather than “subjective” measures of student’s well-being in their first year of college. Critics on SAT generally focus on the bias SAT and ACT create, which is the discrimination against minorities, and the inaccurate reflection of students’ academic potential in …show more content…
This article is obviously arguing that standardized testings such as SAT and ACT are not good measures of students’ merit, and they may result in unintended consequences such as the seclusion of African Americans and Latino Americans from the mainstream, and the limiting extent of student body in college. Therefore I plan to use this when I try to argue the limitation and the unintended consequences of the standardized testings.
Grodsky, Eric, John Robert Warren, and Erika Felts. "Testing And Social Stratification In American Education." Annual Review Of Sociology 34.(2008): 385-404. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Oct. …show more content…
Although this article talks about both side of the coin, it offers convincing insight on how the standardized testing may be unbiased, which is very precious and can be used in my argument as a defense for the standardized testing. Our society is stratified by races and SES, the standardized testing is indeed, the true measurement of the fact. The design of another test which tries to hide the truth and creates no difference between race who constantly rejects the opportunities to learn (OTL) would be regressive and
Summary & Evaluation: The SAT and ACT has become important measurements of students’ academic well-beings, and about 64% of the public universities has rated these standardised test scores as “very important” admissions criteria, because they believe that SAT and ACT are “objective” measures rather than “subjective” measures of student’s well-being in their first year of college. Critics on SAT generally focus on the bias SAT and ACT create, which is the discrimination against minorities, and the inaccurate reflection of students’ academic potential in …show more content…
This article is obviously arguing that standardized testings such as SAT and ACT are not good measures of students’ merit, and they may result in unintended consequences such as the seclusion of African Americans and Latino Americans from the mainstream, and the limiting extent of student body in college. Therefore I plan to use this when I try to argue the limitation and the unintended consequences of the standardized testings.
Grodsky, Eric, John Robert Warren, and Erika Felts. "Testing And Social Stratification In American Education." Annual Review Of Sociology 34.(2008): 385-404. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Oct. …show more content…
Although this article talks about both side of the coin, it offers convincing insight on how the standardized testing may be unbiased, which is very precious and can be used in my argument as a defense for the standardized testing. Our society is stratified by races and SES, the standardized testing is indeed, the true measurement of the fact. The design of another test which tries to hide the truth and creates no difference between race who constantly rejects the opportunities to learn (OTL) would be regressive and