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And they were not admitted to Dartmouth,” he says. “That is a really outstanding score. And, it would have been a great piece [of information] to have\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that test scores helped bring in students from high schools that didn’t already have a track record of sending students to Dartmouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What works for Dartmouth won’t necessarily work for everyone\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Dartmouth study challenges the long-standing criticism that standardized tests, like the ACT and the College Board’s SAT, hurt students from marginalized backgrounds when it comes to admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2021/9/28/is-income-implicit-in-measures-of-student-ability\">Multiple\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html\">studies\u003c/a> have found a correlation between higher test scores and higher income. And in the high school class of 2020, Black and Latino students scored lower than white and Asian students on the math section of the SAT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sat-math-scores-mirror-and-maintain-racial-inequity/\">according to the Brookings Institution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A years-long movement to get rid of test requirements gained critical momentum when the pandemic hit and complicated students’ ability to take the exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wave of test optional becomes a kind of tsunami,” says Harry Feder, executive director of FairTest, an advocacy organization that tracks test optional policies at colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fairtest.org/test-optional-list/\">According to FairTest\u003c/a>, more than 1,900 U.S. colleges and universities are currently “test optional,” meaning students can decide whether they want to submit their standardized test scores with their applications. One of the largest public systems in the country, California State University, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/csu-entrance-requirement/\">removed\u003c/a> standardized testing from their admissions requirements in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the schools that went test optional during the pandemic are now weighing whether to keep those flexible testing policies. And experts stress those policies aren’t one size fits all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that other very different universities will join the bandwagon of the return to the SAT without themselves considering carefully whether the SAT aligns with their admissions objectives,” says Zachary Bleemer, an assistant professor in economics at Princeton University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s done research looking at a program in California that admitted students with high GPAs and low test scores. They were able to take advantage of the universities’ opportunities and resources and turn them into a successful career that wouldn’t have happened if they hadn’t been admitted. Bleemer says that \u003cem>access \u003c/em>is kind of the point of a publicly funded college. A small, private college, like Dartmouth, may have different objectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>College applications are always up for interpretation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sacerdote, at Dartmouth, acknowledges the inequities in the admissions process. But he says those inequities exist in the larger education system – not just in tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job of an admissions office is to \u003cem>interpret \u003c/em>an application, including test scores – which means it all comes down to human judgment, and making sure application readers don’t get obsessed with the test the way culture sometimes does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of experience that says that people misinterpret and over emphasize numbers,” says Andrew Ho, an education professor at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are humans rendering judgments, right? And you hope that they have expertise. You \u003cem>trust \u003c/em>that they have expertise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe, he says, you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited by: Nicole Cohen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Dartmouth+will+again+require+SAT%2C+ACT+scores.+Other+colleges+won%27t+necessarily+follow&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63109/dartmouth-will-again-require-sat-act-scores-other-colleges-wont-necessarily-follow","authors":["byline_mindshift_63109"],"categories":["mindshift_21694"],"tags":["mindshift_21790","mindshift_21261","mindshift_21189","mindshift_20733","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_63110","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_59002":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_59002","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"59002","score":null,"sort":[1643182259000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-those-who-need-to-take-the-sat-testing-will-shift-to-online-starting-2024-in-u-s","title":"For those who need to take the SAT, testing will shift to online starting 2024 in U.S.","publishDate":1643182259,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>The SAT, a college admissions exam long associated with paper and pencil, will soon go all-digital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2023 for international students and in 2024 in the U.S., the new digital SAT will shrink from three hours to two, include shorter reading passages and allow students to use a calculator on the math section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing will still take place at a test center or at a school, but students will be able to choose between using their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or the schools' devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The digital SAT will be easier to take, easier to give, and more relevant,\" said Priscilla Rodriguez of the College Board, the organization behind the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With input from educators and students, we are adapting to ensure we continue to meet their evolving needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/at-home-sat-coronavirus.html\">previously scrapped\u003c/a> plans to offer an at-home digital test because of concern about students being able to access three hours of uninterrupted internet and power. Student broadband access has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1053917252/infrastructure-bill-broadband-internet-rural-college-students\">a constant struggle\u003c/a> throughout the pandemic, especially in rural and low-income areas. The new SAT will be designed to autosave, so students won't lose work or time while they reconnect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the relevance of the SAT and ACT, another college entrance exam, is being called into question in the college admissions process. More than 1,800 U.S. colleges are not requiring a test score for students applying to enroll in fall 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairtest.org/more-1815-schools-do-not-require-actsat-scores-cur\">according to\u003c/a> the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. At least 1,400 of those schools have extended their test policies through at least the fall of 2023. The University of California system, one of the largest in the nation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams-door-on-sat-and-all-standardized-admissions-tests\">permanently removed the tests from its admissions process\u003c/a> in November, after a drawn-out debate and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786257347/lawsuit-claims-sat-and-act-are-illegal-in-california-admissions\">a lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the SAT and ACT are deeply ingrained in the American high school experience. More than a dozen states \u003ca href=\"https://prepmaven.com/blog/test-prep/states-require-sat-act/\">require one of the exams to graduate\u003c/a>, and before the pandemic 10 states and Washington, D.C., had contracts with the College Board to \u003ca href=\"https://reports.collegeboard.org/archive/sat-suite-program-results/2019/benefits-sat-school-day#:~:text=SAT%20School%20Day%20can%20be,at%20no%20cost%20to%20students.\">offer the test during the school day for free to their students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the college admissions process \u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-things-to-know-about-the-latest-high-profile-admissions-lawsuit\">grabbing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044510811/varsity-blues-conviction-college-admissions-scandal\">headlines\u003c/a>, and the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1003049852/supreme-court-adds-affirmative-action-to-its-potential-hit-list\">agreeing to revisit the use of affirmative action in admissions\u003c/a>, the College Board maintains that the SAT plays \"a vital role in holistic admissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite many colleges making the test optional, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-will-to-test-in-a-test-optional-era\">some students\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875367144/colleges-are-backing-off-sat-act-scores-but-the-exams-will-be-hard-to-shake\">see value\u003c/a> in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The test] definitely doesn't offer the full profile of who a student is, it's not like the missing piece,\" explains Kirsten Amematsro, a junior at Potomac High School in Dumfries, Va. \"But it can make your application better. It just kind of speaks to what you can accomplish in your testing ability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amematsro first started thinking about her path to college — and taking the SAT — back in sixth grade. When she got to high school, her mom bought her a poster of a college readiness to-do list that hangs in her bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that it's going to be a vital part when I apply [to college],\" she says. She thinks with so many colleges going test-optional, having a good SAT will be \"a cherry on top\" of her application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amematsro took a pilot version of the new digital SAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt more streamlined,\" she says. \"It's just not as easy for me, honestly, to focus on the paper as it was the computer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used her own laptop to take it, which felt comfortable and familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just feel like it's easier for our generation because we're so used to using technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this new digital format, the SAT had already gone through several changes. In 2014, the College Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html\">revealed\u003c/a> it would drop its penalty-for-wrong-answers policy, make the essay portion optional and remove the obscure vocabulary section. And in early 2021, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958329475/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay\">announced it would discontinue\u003c/a> the optional essay component of the SAT, as well as the subject tests in U.S. history, languages and math, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Starting+in+2024%2C+U.S.+students+will+take+the+SAT+entirely+online&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The College Board, the organization behind the test, also announced that the exam will shrink from three hours to two, and students will be able to use a calculator for the math section.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1643268866,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":702},"headData":{"title":"For those who need to take the SAT, testing will shift to online starting 2024 in U.S. - MindShift","description":"The College Board, the organization behind the test, also announced that the exam will shrink from three hours to two, and students will be able to use a calculator for the math section.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"For those who need to take the SAT, testing will shift to online starting 2024 in U.S.","datePublished":"2022-01-26T07:30:59.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-27T07:34:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"59002 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=59002","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2022/01/25/for-those-who-need-to-take-the-sat-testing-will-shift-to-online-starting-2024-in-u-s/","disqusTitle":"For those who need to take the SAT, testing will shift to online starting 2024 in U.S.","nprByline":"Elissa Nadworny ","nprImageAgency":"Ryan Johnson for NPR","nprStoryId":"1075315337","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1075315337&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075315337/new-digital-sat-college-admissions-test-requirement-2024-us?ft=nprml&f=1075315337","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:05:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:38:46 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2022/01/20220125_atc_taking_the_sat_will_look_a_bit_different_in_the_next_couple_of_years.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=166&p=2&story=1075315337&ft=nprml&f=1075315337","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11075649731-f1e511.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=166&p=2&story=1075315337&ft=nprml&f=1075315337","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/mindshift/59002/for-those-who-need-to-take-the-sat-testing-will-shift-to-online-starting-2024-in-u-s","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2022/01/20220125_atc_taking_the_sat_will_look_a_bit_different_in_the_next_couple_of_years.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=166&p=2&story=1075315337&ft=nprml&f=1075315337","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The SAT, a college admissions exam long associated with paper and pencil, will soon go all-digital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2023 for international students and in 2024 in the U.S., the new digital SAT will shrink from three hours to two, include shorter reading passages and allow students to use a calculator on the math section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing will still take place at a test center or at a school, but students will be able to choose between using their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or the schools' devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The digital SAT will be easier to take, easier to give, and more relevant,\" said Priscilla Rodriguez of the College Board, the organization behind the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With input from educators and students, we are adapting to ensure we continue to meet their evolving needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/at-home-sat-coronavirus.html\">previously scrapped\u003c/a> plans to offer an at-home digital test because of concern about students being able to access three hours of uninterrupted internet and power. Student broadband access has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1053917252/infrastructure-bill-broadband-internet-rural-college-students\">a constant struggle\u003c/a> throughout the pandemic, especially in rural and low-income areas. The new SAT will be designed to autosave, so students won't lose work or time while they reconnect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the relevance of the SAT and ACT, another college entrance exam, is being called into question in the college admissions process. More than 1,800 U.S. colleges are not requiring a test score for students applying to enroll in fall 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairtest.org/more-1815-schools-do-not-require-actsat-scores-cur\">according to\u003c/a> the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. At least 1,400 of those schools have extended their test policies through at least the fall of 2023. The University of California system, one of the largest in the nation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams-door-on-sat-and-all-standardized-admissions-tests\">permanently removed the tests from its admissions process\u003c/a> in November, after a drawn-out debate and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786257347/lawsuit-claims-sat-and-act-are-illegal-in-california-admissions\">a lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the SAT and ACT are deeply ingrained in the American high school experience. More than a dozen states \u003ca href=\"https://prepmaven.com/blog/test-prep/states-require-sat-act/\">require one of the exams to graduate\u003c/a>, and before the pandemic 10 states and Washington, D.C., had contracts with the College Board to \u003ca href=\"https://reports.collegeboard.org/archive/sat-suite-program-results/2019/benefits-sat-school-day#:~:text=SAT%20School%20Day%20can%20be,at%20no%20cost%20to%20students.\">offer the test during the school day for free to their students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the college admissions process \u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-things-to-know-about-the-latest-high-profile-admissions-lawsuit\">grabbing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044510811/varsity-blues-conviction-college-admissions-scandal\">headlines\u003c/a>, and the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1003049852/supreme-court-adds-affirmative-action-to-its-potential-hit-list\">agreeing to revisit the use of affirmative action in admissions\u003c/a>, the College Board maintains that the SAT plays \"a vital role in holistic admissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite many colleges making the test optional, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-will-to-test-in-a-test-optional-era\">some students\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875367144/colleges-are-backing-off-sat-act-scores-but-the-exams-will-be-hard-to-shake\">see value\u003c/a> in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The test] definitely doesn't offer the full profile of who a student is, it's not like the missing piece,\" explains Kirsten Amematsro, a junior at Potomac High School in Dumfries, Va. \"But it can make your application better. It just kind of speaks to what you can accomplish in your testing ability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amematsro first started thinking about her path to college — and taking the SAT — back in sixth grade. When she got to high school, her mom bought her a poster of a college readiness to-do list that hangs in her bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that it's going to be a vital part when I apply [to college],\" she says. She thinks with so many colleges going test-optional, having a good SAT will be \"a cherry on top\" of her application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amematsro took a pilot version of the new digital SAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt more streamlined,\" she says. \"It's just not as easy for me, honestly, to focus on the paper as it was the computer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used her own laptop to take it, which felt comfortable and familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just feel like it's easier for our generation because we're so used to using technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this new digital format, the SAT had already gone through several changes. In 2014, the College Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html\">revealed\u003c/a> it would drop its penalty-for-wrong-answers policy, make the essay portion optional and remove the obscure vocabulary section. And in early 2021, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958329475/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay\">announced it would discontinue\u003c/a> the optional essay component of the SAT, as well as the subject tests in U.S. history, languages and math, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Starting+in+2024%2C+U.S.+students+will+take+the+SAT+entirely+online&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/59002/for-those-who-need-to-take-the-sat-testing-will-shift-to-online-starting-2024-in-u-s","authors":["byline_mindshift_59002"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_21189","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_59003","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57269":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57269","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57269","score":null,"sort":[1611128555000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay","title":"SAT Discontinues Subject Tests And Optional Essay","publishDate":1611128555,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:03 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board \u003ca href=\"https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/update-reducing-and-simplifying-demands-students\">announced on Tuesday\u003c/a> that it will discontinue the optional essay component of the SAT and that it will no longer offer subject tests in U.S. history, languages and math, among other topics. The organization, which administers the college entrance exam in addition to several other tests, including Advanced Placement exams, will instead focus efforts on a new digital version of the SAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the announcement, the organization cited the coronavirus pandemic for these changes: \"The pandemic accelerated a process already underway at the College Board to reduce and simplify demands on students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College entrance exams have had a hard go of it during the pandemic. Many in-person testing dates for the SAT \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/09/28/hundreds-thousands-who-registered-sat-unable-take-it\">were canceled\u003c/a> because of social distancing needs and closed high school buildings; a previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/at-home-sat-coronavirus.html\">digital version of the SAT was scrapped\u003c/a> in June after technical difficulties; and hundreds of colleges have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875367144/colleges-are-backing-off-sat-act-scores-but-the-exams-will-be-hard-to-shake\">removed the exam from admissions requirements\u003c/a>, in some cases permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few colleges require the optional writing portion of the SAT or the subject tests, though students can still submit them to supplement their college applications. The AP exams have become far more important in demonstrating mastery of subjects and, in some cases, providing college credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Removing the subject tests can remove a barrier for students,\" says Ashley L. Bennett, director of college counseling at KIPP Sunnyside High School in Houston. But, she adds, \"I believe that standardized testing in general needs to be less emphasized in the college search process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Heaton advises families about college admissions at College Coach in Watertown, Mass. She thinks the changes could help put some students on a more level playing field. \"For students who aren't getting great advising, it is nice to see that they haven't been eliminated from competition just by virtue of not having a test that they may not have known about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Catalina Cifuentes, who works to promote college access in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, has reservations. She worries that removing the SAT subject tests will create more barriers for her students, rather than less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hundreds of my students take the subject tests in Spanish and other languages because it provides them an opportunity to show their understanding of a second language,\" explains Cifuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her students speak a second language at home and would be the first in their family to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her college-bound students often enroll in the University of California and California State University systems, which both require two years of coursework in another language for admission. The SAT foreign-language tests sometimes filled that requirement, but the removal of these exams means Cifuentes will have to shift gears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will need to work closely with our world language teachers to expand on ideas ... for students who already read, write and speak another language,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job is all about helping school districts adapt to decisions from colleges and organizations like the College Board, Cifuentes explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decision they discuss — there's real repercussions. There's no right or wrong decision, but with everything they do, it should be students first.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eda Uzunlar is an intern on NPR's Education Desk. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=SAT+Discontinues+Subject+Tests+And+Optional+Essay&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The College Board, citing the pandemic for the changes, will shift focus to a new digital version of the college entrance exam.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1611215059,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":555},"headData":{"title":"SAT Discontinues Subject Tests And Optional Essay - MindShift","description":"The College Board, citing the pandemic for the changes, will shift focus to a new digital version of the college entrance exam.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"SAT Discontinues Subject Tests And Optional Essay","datePublished":"2021-01-20T07:42:35.000Z","dateModified":"2021-01-21T07:44:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"57269 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=57269","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2021/01/19/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay/","disqusTitle":"SAT Discontinues Subject Tests And Optional Essay","nprImageCredit":"LA Johnson","nprByline":"Elissa Nadworny and Eda Uzunlar","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"958329475","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=958329475&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958329475/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay?ft=nprml&f=958329475","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:06:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:12:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:06:55 -0500","path":"/mindshift/57269/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:03 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board \u003ca href=\"https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/update-reducing-and-simplifying-demands-students\">announced on Tuesday\u003c/a> that it will discontinue the optional essay component of the SAT and that it will no longer offer subject tests in U.S. history, languages and math, among other topics. The organization, which administers the college entrance exam in addition to several other tests, including Advanced Placement exams, will instead focus efforts on a new digital version of the SAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the announcement, the organization cited the coronavirus pandemic for these changes: \"The pandemic accelerated a process already underway at the College Board to reduce and simplify demands on students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College entrance exams have had a hard go of it during the pandemic. Many in-person testing dates for the SAT \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/09/28/hundreds-thousands-who-registered-sat-unable-take-it\">were canceled\u003c/a> because of social distancing needs and closed high school buildings; a previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/at-home-sat-coronavirus.html\">digital version of the SAT was scrapped\u003c/a> in June after technical difficulties; and hundreds of colleges have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875367144/colleges-are-backing-off-sat-act-scores-but-the-exams-will-be-hard-to-shake\">removed the exam from admissions requirements\u003c/a>, in some cases permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few colleges require the optional writing portion of the SAT or the subject tests, though students can still submit them to supplement their college applications. The AP exams have become far more important in demonstrating mastery of subjects and, in some cases, providing college credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Removing the subject tests can remove a barrier for students,\" says Ashley L. Bennett, director of college counseling at KIPP Sunnyside High School in Houston. But, she adds, \"I believe that standardized testing in general needs to be less emphasized in the college search process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Heaton advises families about college admissions at College Coach in Watertown, Mass. She thinks the changes could help put some students on a more level playing field. \"For students who aren't getting great advising, it is nice to see that they haven't been eliminated from competition just by virtue of not having a test that they may not have known about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Catalina Cifuentes, who works to promote college access in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, has reservations. She worries that removing the SAT subject tests will create more barriers for her students, rather than less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hundreds of my students take the subject tests in Spanish and other languages because it provides them an opportunity to show their understanding of a second language,\" explains Cifuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her students speak a second language at home and would be the first in their family to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her college-bound students often enroll in the University of California and California State University systems, which both require two years of coursework in another language for admission. The SAT foreign-language tests sometimes filled that requirement, but the removal of these exams means Cifuentes will have to shift gears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will need to work closely with our world language teachers to expand on ideas ... for students who already read, write and speak another language,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job is all about helping school districts adapt to decisions from colleges and organizations like the College Board, Cifuentes explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decision they discuss — there's real repercussions. There's no right or wrong decision, but with everything they do, it should be students first.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eda Uzunlar is an intern on NPR's Education Desk. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=SAT+Discontinues+Subject+Tests+And+Optional+Essay&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57269/sat-discontinues-subject-tests-and-optional-essay","authors":["byline_mindshift_57269"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343","mindshift_358","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_57270","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_51137":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_51137","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"51137","score":null,"sort":[1524810038000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"study-colleges-that-ditch-the-sat-and-act-can-enhance-diversity","title":"Study: Colleges That Ditch The SAT And ACT Can Enhance Diversity","publishDate":1524810038,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>There are now well over 1,000 colleges and universities that don't require SAT or ACT scores in deciding whom to admit, a number that's growing every year. And a new study finds that scores on those tests are of little value in predicting students' performance in college, and raises the question: Should those tests be required at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges that have gone \"test optional\" enroll — and graduate — a higher proportion of low-income and first generation-students, and more students from diverse backgrounds, the researchers found in the study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nacacnet.org/HowTest-OptionalWorks\">Defining Access: How Test-Optional Works\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research clearly demonstrates that these students graduate often at a higher rate,\" said Steve Syverson, an assistant vice chancellor at the University of Washington Bothell, and co-author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a college considers going test-optional, one of the first reactions that people, including alumni, feel is that the college will be admitting less qualified students,\" he added. Syverson says the study should reassure admissions officials who've decided to go test-optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson and his team of researchers studied 28 public and private institutions that no longer require test scores, and tracked about 956,000 individual student records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Ian Haimowitz, a sophomore at George Washington University, a test-optional school in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says in the beginning, he felt like a fish out of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know for a fact I'm the first Nicaraguan-American, the first Latino, the first Jewish Latino that a lot of kids meet,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that when he arrived at GW, he looked around and asked himself, \"What am I doing here with kids who went to private schools and got the best education possible?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a very different world than he grew up in back in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember my freshman year of high school, I didn't have a math teacher. Maybe that's why you see in my test score that I didn't have a good grounding in math. But I believed my potential was still there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian was a straight-A student in high school, but his SAT scores were so low he didn't think any top tier school would accept him. He says not having to submit his test scores opened the doors to a top selective school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, George Washington received about 26,500 undergraduate applications from all over the country. Close to 20 percent did not submit their test scores, which GW says has helped enroll more students from diverse backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some researchers question the impact that test-optional admissions policies have had on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Buckley, a senior vice president at the American Institutes for Research, notes that while diversity improved at schools that have gone test-optional, that also happened \"at the same rate among those that didn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, says Buckley, test-optional schools are not more effective in enrolling minorities than schools that still require test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson says that's not what the evidence in his study is showing. \"We certainly are not arguing that everyone should abolish test scores,\" he says. \"Test scores do have some value.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson insists that his study shows that tests can be an obstacle not just for students who don't test well, but for students from under-served, under-represented populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, he adds, you can admit pretty good students by looking at something other than test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's been the experience at George Washington University. \"Our experience is actually that (students') high school performance predicts college performance extremely well,\" says Forrest Maltzman, the university's provost and chief academic officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maltzman says that whatever helped students be successful in high school tends to work for them in college: \"Standardized tests don't get at that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years worth of data show that students who got into GW with high test scores performed no better as freshman and sophomores than those who got in without submitting their test scores, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The added value of test scores in predicting performance today is really very very minimal,\" Maltzman argues. \"The best thing these tests match up with is actually family income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, says Syverson, is consistent with his team's findings. 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And a new study finds that scores on those tests are of little value in predicting students' performance in college, and raises the question: Should those tests be required at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges that have gone \"test optional\" enroll — and graduate — a higher proportion of low-income and first generation-students, and more students from diverse backgrounds, the researchers found in the study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nacacnet.org/HowTest-OptionalWorks\">Defining Access: How Test-Optional Works\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research clearly demonstrates that these students graduate often at a higher rate,\" said Steve Syverson, an assistant vice chancellor at the University of Washington Bothell, and co-author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a college considers going test-optional, one of the first reactions that people, including alumni, feel is that the college will be admitting less qualified students,\" he added. Syverson says the study should reassure admissions officials who've decided to go test-optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson and his team of researchers studied 28 public and private institutions that no longer require test scores, and tracked about 956,000 individual student records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Ian Haimowitz, a sophomore at George Washington University, a test-optional school in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says in the beginning, he felt like a fish out of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know for a fact I'm the first Nicaraguan-American, the first Latino, the first Jewish Latino that a lot of kids meet,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that when he arrived at GW, he looked around and asked himself, \"What am I doing here with kids who went to private schools and got the best education possible?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a very different world than he grew up in back in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember my freshman year of high school, I didn't have a math teacher. Maybe that's why you see in my test score that I didn't have a good grounding in math. But I believed my potential was still there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian was a straight-A student in high school, but his SAT scores were so low he didn't think any top tier school would accept him. He says not having to submit his test scores opened the doors to a top selective school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, George Washington received about 26,500 undergraduate applications from all over the country. Close to 20 percent did not submit their test scores, which GW says has helped enroll more students from diverse backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some researchers question the impact that test-optional admissions policies have had on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Buckley, a senior vice president at the American Institutes for Research, notes that while diversity improved at schools that have gone test-optional, that also happened \"at the same rate among those that didn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, says Buckley, test-optional schools are not more effective in enrolling minorities than schools that still require test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson says that's not what the evidence in his study is showing. \"We certainly are not arguing that everyone should abolish test scores,\" he says. \"Test scores do have some value.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syverson insists that his study shows that tests can be an obstacle not just for students who don't test well, but for students from under-served, under-represented populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, he adds, you can admit pretty good students by looking at something other than test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's been the experience at George Washington University. \"Our experience is actually that (students') high school performance predicts college performance extremely well,\" says Forrest Maltzman, the university's provost and chief academic officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maltzman says that whatever helped students be successful in high school tends to work for them in college: \"Standardized tests don't get at that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years worth of data show that students who got into GW with high test scores performed no better as freshman and sophomores than those who got in without submitting their test scores, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The added value of test scores in predicting performance today is really very very minimal,\" Maltzman argues. \"The best thing these tests match up with is actually family income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, says Syverson, is consistent with his team's findings. Still, he cautions that test optional policies are no panacea. They're just another way to make college more accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our study clearly supports the notion that if an institution wants to do a better job serving traditionally under-served populations, test optional (policies) can provide a very useful tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Study%3A+Colleges+That+Ditch+The+SAT+And+ACT+Can+Enhance+Diversity+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/51137/study-colleges-that-ditch-the-sat-and-act-can-enhance-diversity","authors":["byline_mindshift_51137"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20733","mindshift_20610","mindshift_20701","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_464","mindshift_883"],"featImg":"mindshift_51138","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_37691":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_37691","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"37691","score":null,"sort":[1410379218000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"could-personal-videos-become-the-heart-of-college-applications","title":"Could Personal Videos Become the Heart of College Applications?","publishDate":1410379218,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-37700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg\" alt=\"Goucher College\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goucher College\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Juana Summers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The college admissions game is intense, competitive and, some would say, out of control. Now one Maryland college is looking to make it a little bit simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goucher College, a liberal arts school in Baltimore, is offering students the opportunity to skip submitting standardized SAT and ACT scores, as well as the traditional college application packet that includes a transcript, letters of recommendation and essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, students can apply with a self-produced, two-minute video that explains how they see themselves thriving at Goucher, and why they want to go there. Students are also asked to submit two \"works of scholarship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The college admissions process is broken. The application process is complicated; it's stressful,\" says José Bowen, who took over as president of Goucher in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Video is where everybody's at,\" he adds. \"High school students who might not have a laptop, they might not have a way to write their essay and get their parents to edit it. But they probably have a phone, and they understand how to use the phone to make a video.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/v8ov43Ts4Jw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says he hopes the new approach will increase the \"diversity of thought\" on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my own experience, the SAT ... is not an absolute measure of potential,\" he says. \"It mostly tells us about your previous performance, and it tells us quite a bit about your parental background.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting students to apply who might not typically fill out a traditional application to Goucher is one goal, a second is likely just getting more students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 3,615 applications to be part of Goucher's fall 2012 freshman class. Goucher admitted 72 percent of them. But of those admitted, just 16 percent enrolled, according to the school's admissions office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goucher isn't the first to accept self-produced videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tufts University first gave students the opportunity to include YouTube videos as supplements to their applications in 2010. That first year, about 1,000 of the 15,000 students who applied \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124628580\">submitted videos\u003c/a>. They were a mix of whimsy that included singing, performance art and even one that combined math and ballet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goucher may be the first school to supplant the traditional application with one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: Will students start paying for production assistance and slick editing, in the same way many now pay to polish their essays or prep for standardized tests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rY3tsfvbOScahNA6AQn401d8mf5uYldb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says students won't be evaluated on production quality. According to a rubric posted \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.goucher.edu/intheloop/6339/goucher-college-first-in-nation-to-launch-video-application-alternative/\">on Goucher's website\u003c/a>, students will be scored on their content/thoughtfulness, the structure and organization of the video, and the clarity and effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're being specific that 'lights, camera, action,' is not going to help,\" Bowen says. \"We're going to be looking at you and what you have to say. You can use a cellphone; you don't need a fancy camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in other words, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6WEn0WWrIw\">no pulling an Elle Woods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Sternberg, a Cornell University professor and former dean of arts and sciences at Tufts, is a big believer in overhauling a college admissions process that he says lacks creativity and doesn't serve students well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Goucher is making a step in the right direction by introducing new ways to allow students to say who they really are. But, he warned, video applications might backfire for some students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It puts an emphasis on how well you perform for a camera,\" says Sternberg, the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30092\">College Admissions for the 21st Century\u003c/a>. \"Unfortunately, people can't help things like interpersonal skills and attractiveness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And video could lead to bias, Sternberg says, based on how applicants look, how they dress, or how they present themselves on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The best admissions process,\" Sternberg says, \"is always going to be one that uses multiple measures, so you hope to cancel out the bias. People have unconscious racial biases or gender biases that they're not aware of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says he's well-aware of those concerns. To guard against bias, he says applications will be screened by a \"very diverse recruitment force,\" as well as members of the faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students will still have the option to pass on the video and submit a more traditional application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Rother, who graduated from Goucher in December 2011, says that if a video had been an option when she applied, she wouldn't have used it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a very creative person in terms of the opportunity to stand in front of a camera and make that happen, so for me the essay was the way to go,\" she says. \"I'm also a traditionalist; I follow the rules really well. This would be a little outside of my rule-following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2014 NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Soon Goucher's admissions office will plow through thousands of essays, recommendations — and, for the first time, video applications.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1410378415,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/v8ov43Ts4Jw"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":801},"headData":{"title":"Could Personal Videos Become the Heart of College Applications? | KQED","description":"Soon Goucher's admissions office will plow through thousands of essays, recommendations — and, for the first time, video applications.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Could Personal Videos Become the Heart of College Applications?","datePublished":"2014-09-10T20:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2014-09-10T19:46:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"37691 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=37691","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/10/could-personal-videos-become-the-heart-of-college-applications/","disqusTitle":"Could Personal Videos Become the Heart of College Applications?","nprByline":"Juana Summers","nprStoryId":"345833353","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=345833353&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/05/345833353/lights-camera-college-goucher-college-introduces-video-applications?ft=3&f=345833353","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:45:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 05 Sep 2014 12:38:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:45:53 -0400","path":"/mindshift/37691/could-personal-videos-become-the-heart-of-college-applications","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-37700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg\" alt=\"Goucher College\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/09/goucher-video-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goucher College\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Juana Summers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The college admissions game is intense, competitive and, some would say, out of control. Now one Maryland college is looking to make it a little bit simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goucher College, a liberal arts school in Baltimore, is offering students the opportunity to skip submitting standardized SAT and ACT scores, as well as the traditional college application packet that includes a transcript, letters of recommendation and essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, students can apply with a self-produced, two-minute video that explains how they see themselves thriving at Goucher, and why they want to go there. Students are also asked to submit two \"works of scholarship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The college admissions process is broken. The application process is complicated; it's stressful,\" says José Bowen, who took over as president of Goucher in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Video is where everybody's at,\" he adds. \"High school students who might not have a laptop, they might not have a way to write their essay and get their parents to edit it. But they probably have a phone, and they understand how to use the phone to make a video.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/v8ov43Ts4Jw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says he hopes the new approach will increase the \"diversity of thought\" on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my own experience, the SAT ... is not an absolute measure of potential,\" he says. \"It mostly tells us about your previous performance, and it tells us quite a bit about your parental background.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting students to apply who might not typically fill out a traditional application to Goucher is one goal, a second is likely just getting more students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 3,615 applications to be part of Goucher's fall 2012 freshman class. Goucher admitted 72 percent of them. But of those admitted, just 16 percent enrolled, according to the school's admissions office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goucher isn't the first to accept self-produced videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tufts University first gave students the opportunity to include YouTube videos as supplements to their applications in 2010. That first year, about 1,000 of the 15,000 students who applied \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124628580\">submitted videos\u003c/a>. They were a mix of whimsy that included singing, performance art and even one that combined math and ballet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goucher may be the first school to supplant the traditional application with one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: Will students start paying for production assistance and slick editing, in the same way many now pay to polish their essays or prep for standardized tests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says students won't be evaluated on production quality. According to a rubric posted \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.goucher.edu/intheloop/6339/goucher-college-first-in-nation-to-launch-video-application-alternative/\">on Goucher's website\u003c/a>, students will be scored on their content/thoughtfulness, the structure and organization of the video, and the clarity and effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're being specific that 'lights, camera, action,' is not going to help,\" Bowen says. \"We're going to be looking at you and what you have to say. You can use a cellphone; you don't need a fancy camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in other words, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6WEn0WWrIw\">no pulling an Elle Woods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Sternberg, a Cornell University professor and former dean of arts and sciences at Tufts, is a big believer in overhauling a college admissions process that he says lacks creativity and doesn't serve students well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Goucher is making a step in the right direction by introducing new ways to allow students to say who they really are. But, he warned, video applications might backfire for some students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It puts an emphasis on how well you perform for a camera,\" says Sternberg, the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30092\">College Admissions for the 21st Century\u003c/a>. \"Unfortunately, people can't help things like interpersonal skills and attractiveness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And video could lead to bias, Sternberg says, based on how applicants look, how they dress, or how they present themselves on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The best admissions process,\" Sternberg says, \"is always going to be one that uses multiple measures, so you hope to cancel out the bias. People have unconscious racial biases or gender biases that they're not aware of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen says he's well-aware of those concerns. To guard against bias, he says applications will be screened by a \"very diverse recruitment force,\" as well as members of the faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students will still have the option to pass on the video and submit a more traditional application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Rother, who graduated from Goucher in December 2011, says that if a video had been an option when she applied, she wouldn't have used it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a very creative person in terms of the opportunity to stand in front of a camera and make that happen, so for me the essay was the way to go,\" she says. \"I'm also a traditionalist; I follow the rules really well. This would be a little outside of my rule-following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2014 NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/37691/could-personal-videos-become-the-heart-of-college-applications","authors":["byline_mindshift_37691"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20733","mindshift_68","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_37700","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_36412":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_36412","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"36412","score":null,"sort":[1403536580000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"employers-challenge-to-educators-make-school-relevant-to-students-lives","title":"Employers' Challenge to Educators: Make School Relevant to Students' Lives","publishDate":1403536580,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi/4032198061\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36432\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Levers/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andreas Levers/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"div_for_spokenlayer_player\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Business leaders and economic thinkers are worried that today's students aren't leaving school with the skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. Representatives from tech companies and hiring experts are looking for applicants who show individuality, confidence in their abilities, ability to identify and communicate their strengths, and who are capable of thinking on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytfriedmanforum.com/\" target=\"_blank\">recent Next New World conference\u003c/a> hosted by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Friedman,\u003c/a> panelists addressed the question of how the American education system can better prepare students to meet the evolving challenges of the 21st century economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every panelist agreed that right now, the U.S. does not have a system that produces students that meet those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is not to get incrementally better with our current education system,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.tonywagner.com/about-tony\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Wagner\u003c/a>, expert in residence at Harvard’s Innovation Lab. “The problem is to reimagine it.” Wagner is not the first to call for a make-over of the education system, and he certainly isn’t the first to advocate for content that connects with students in authentic ways or that teaches real world skills. His voice joins with the countless educators clamoring for the freedom to pursue those same goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"cd1c23cc36e2b9e67fd01dacd32d3218\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Content knowledge has to be engaging to kids,” Wagner said. “If kids aren’t motivated, you can pour content knowledge in their heads and it comes right out the other ear.” And while critical thinking and communication are important, Wagner said schools are in danger if they stop there. “Above all, they need to be creative problem solvers,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner highlighted schools in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/deeper-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">deeper learning network\u003c/a> like New Tech Network, Expeditionary Learning, High Tech High and Big Picture as school models that are aiming to fulfill many of these qualities. “Students are learning many more real world skills, as well as content knowledge, through projects,” Wagner said. “They're doing work worth doing. They’re doing work that’s interesting, and engaging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these factors are woven throughout the school experience, students develop intrinsic motivation to take initiative and find their place in the world. They develop hope for what their future might hold. “Most kids are not low on goals and they’re not low on agency,” said Brandon Busteed, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/en-us/education.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup Education\u003c/a>. “It’s that they don’t see pathways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Wagner half-jokingly advocated for “Dream Directors” in schools, whose job it would be to help students identify their dreams and scaffold tasks to help students obtain the skills needed for that dream. Over time attention to the needs of individuals would transform the content and delivery methods in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Students are the power tools of change in education. They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To transform education in ways that have impact, a bottom-up and top-down strategy should be implemented, Wagner said. If parents, students and teachers make their voices heard about what true accountability would look like, they could change the conversation. But the bottom-up strategy will only work, Wagner said, if it’s accompanied by business leaders clearly articulating the outcomes they’d like to see and helping align accountability to those outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need teachers and parents to advocate for a better system,” Wagner said. And perhaps most importantly, students need a voice as education goes through major changes. “We’re not asking students at all about what they think about the quality of their own learning and about what they aspire to learn,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALIGNING WITH COLLEGE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes and trends in K-12 education often seem \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/do-rigid-college-admissions-leave-room-for-creative-thinkers/\" target=\"_blank\">completely divorced from higher education \u003c/a>and the grueling college application process that lands students at colleges all over the country. But that might be changing. Recently, College Board officials announced they are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">changing the SAT to better reflect\u003c/a> what students learn in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAT used to be like studying infinity, said David Coleman, President and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.collegeboard.org/\" target=\"_blank\">College Board\u003c/a>. The new test is meant to focus on fewer standards, but reflect the most important ones more deeply. “Honoring those few things that have disproportionate power is the way through,” Coleman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAT has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/will-more-porminent-colleges-abandon-the-sat/\" target=\"_blank\">criticized as an unfair measure\u003c/a> of what students have learned or know because of the large tutoring industry that has sprung up around it, ensuring that wealthy kids get top scores. But that's also changing. Recently elite liberal arts colleges like Hampshire and Bard have \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/19/hampshire-becomes-only-competitive-college-country-wont-look-sat-act-scores\" target=\"_blank\">announced they won’t consider SAT or ACT scores \u003c/a>if they're submitted with an application, because admissions officers don’t believe the tests are a good measure of students' potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board is trying to push back against some of the negative press by partnering with Khan Academy to offer free test prep materials that all students can access. They’re also doing more to reach out to the many qualified students in the lower quartile of income who never apply to university with specialized packets detailing how they can apply for assistance to pay for application fees and tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS WORK IN COLLEGE MEANINGFUL?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many educators would argue that even once students make it to college -- the stated goal of many high schools -- the education they receive there isn’t preparing them to become innovative thinkers and engaged citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/Friedman-Miller-Wagner.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-36437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/Friedman-Miller-Wagner-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Friedman, Richard Miller and Tony Wagner discuss education at the Next New World Conference in San Francisco. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Friedman, Richard Miller and Tony Wagner discuss education at the Next New World Conference in San Francisco. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gallup recently did a \u003ca href=\"http://products.gallup.com/168857/gallup-purdue-index-inaugural-national-report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">study of college graduates\u003c/a> to gauge how engaged they are with their work and whether they are thriving in the world. In the past, the most studies centered around on how much college graduates earned compared to peers without degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found that student who felt supported -- that their professors cared about them as individuals, that professors made them want to learn, that they had a mentor -- were three times more likely to thrive as those who did not feel supported. Only 14 percent of college graduates answered that all three of those qualities were present in their college experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even fewer college graduates found their higher education experience to be relevant to life and work after college. Only six percent reported with strong affirmatives that they worked on a long term project (at least a semester), had an internship where they could apply skills, and were very engaged in an extracurricular. If a graduate answered “strongly agree” to all three of these qualities he or she was three times as likely to be engaged at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers show that colleges, like K-12 institutions, need to care for individual learners. Feeling connected and mentored makes a difference, just as understanding how learning is relevant and applicable makes students feel prepared for life after college. Without a move in that direction, the U.S. risks continuing to educate young people who go into the workplace disengaged and less likely to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OLIN COLLEGE TRIES NEW MODEL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olin.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Olin College\u003c/a> identified the gap in skilled workers ready for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math and decided to start over with a completely different kind of university. To apply, students visit the college and work in groups on projects. College staff are evaluating them for how they will fit in at the university, primarily looking for strong problem solvers and people who know how to make things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Its purpose is to produce education innovators,” said Richard Miller, president and professor at Olin College. The Massachusetts college is an education laboratory. There are no departments, no tenure, no tuition and the curriculum has an expiration date so that it stays relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Olin is essentially a 'maker' university,” Miller said. In one class, students are asked to identify a group of people whose lives they want to change. Through research and interviews they develop a sociological profile of the group that is used to come up with two to three systems, devices or technologies that don’t already exist and that the group says would make a difference in their lives. Students then develop the specifications for the product and show how to build it. By the end of the course they have the outline for a patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time they graduate a significant fraction of them already have companies they are working on,” Miller said. While the school focuses on STEM, students learn about business too. Miller hopes these students leave school thinking about how they can change the world, not about what job they will get. “We are taking too narrow of a view of what the sciences are and trying to make them too technical,” Miller said. In his mind, an innovator is someone who changes something so profoundly people can’t remember how it was before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are the power tools of change in education,” Miller said. “They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.” But, as Olin has found, when they are given free range to design, make and innovate they can be very powerful examples of what a great education can produce.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Business leaders call on K-12 and higher education institutions to graduate students with the skills demanded by the marketplace.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1404255002,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1592},"headData":{"title":"Employers' Challenge to Educators: Make School Relevant to Students' Lives | KQED","description":"Business leaders call on K-12 and higher education institutions to graduate students with the skills demanded by the marketplace.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Employers' Challenge to Educators: Make School Relevant to Students' Lives","datePublished":"2014-06-23T15:16:20.000Z","dateModified":"2014-07-01T22:50:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"36412 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=36412","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/23/employers-challenge-to-educators-make-school-relevant-to-students-lives/","disqusTitle":"Employers' Challenge to Educators: Make School Relevant to Students' Lives","path":"/mindshift/36412/employers-challenge-to-educators-make-school-relevant-to-students-lives","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi/4032198061\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36432\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Levers/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/trend-line-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andreas Levers/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"div_for_spokenlayer_player\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Business leaders and economic thinkers are worried that today's students aren't leaving school with the skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. Representatives from tech companies and hiring experts are looking for applicants who show individuality, confidence in their abilities, ability to identify and communicate their strengths, and who are capable of thinking on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytfriedmanforum.com/\" target=\"_blank\">recent Next New World conference\u003c/a> hosted by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Friedman,\u003c/a> panelists addressed the question of how the American education system can better prepare students to meet the evolving challenges of the 21st century economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every panelist agreed that right now, the U.S. does not have a system that produces students that meet those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is not to get incrementally better with our current education system,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.tonywagner.com/about-tony\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Wagner\u003c/a>, expert in residence at Harvard’s Innovation Lab. “The problem is to reimagine it.” Wagner is not the first to call for a make-over of the education system, and he certainly isn’t the first to advocate for content that connects with students in authentic ways or that teaches real world skills. His voice joins with the countless educators clamoring for the freedom to pursue those same goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Content knowledge has to be engaging to kids,” Wagner said. “If kids aren’t motivated, you can pour content knowledge in their heads and it comes right out the other ear.” And while critical thinking and communication are important, Wagner said schools are in danger if they stop there. “Above all, they need to be creative problem solvers,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner highlighted schools in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/deeper-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">deeper learning network\u003c/a> like New Tech Network, Expeditionary Learning, High Tech High and Big Picture as school models that are aiming to fulfill many of these qualities. “Students are learning many more real world skills, as well as content knowledge, through projects,” Wagner said. “They're doing work worth doing. They’re doing work that’s interesting, and engaging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these factors are woven throughout the school experience, students develop intrinsic motivation to take initiative and find their place in the world. They develop hope for what their future might hold. “Most kids are not low on goals and they’re not low on agency,” said Brandon Busteed, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/en-us/education.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup Education\u003c/a>. “It’s that they don’t see pathways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Wagner half-jokingly advocated for “Dream Directors” in schools, whose job it would be to help students identify their dreams and scaffold tasks to help students obtain the skills needed for that dream. Over time attention to the needs of individuals would transform the content and delivery methods in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Students are the power tools of change in education. They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To transform education in ways that have impact, a bottom-up and top-down strategy should be implemented, Wagner said. If parents, students and teachers make their voices heard about what true accountability would look like, they could change the conversation. But the bottom-up strategy will only work, Wagner said, if it’s accompanied by business leaders clearly articulating the outcomes they’d like to see and helping align accountability to those outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need teachers and parents to advocate for a better system,” Wagner said. And perhaps most importantly, students need a voice as education goes through major changes. “We’re not asking students at all about what they think about the quality of their own learning and about what they aspire to learn,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALIGNING WITH COLLEGE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes and trends in K-12 education often seem \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/do-rigid-college-admissions-leave-room-for-creative-thinkers/\" target=\"_blank\">completely divorced from higher education \u003c/a>and the grueling college application process that lands students at colleges all over the country. But that might be changing. Recently, College Board officials announced they are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">changing the SAT to better reflect\u003c/a> what students learn in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAT used to be like studying infinity, said David Coleman, President and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.collegeboard.org/\" target=\"_blank\">College Board\u003c/a>. The new test is meant to focus on fewer standards, but reflect the most important ones more deeply. “Honoring those few things that have disproportionate power is the way through,” Coleman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAT has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/will-more-porminent-colleges-abandon-the-sat/\" target=\"_blank\">criticized as an unfair measure\u003c/a> of what students have learned or know because of the large tutoring industry that has sprung up around it, ensuring that wealthy kids get top scores. But that's also changing. Recently elite liberal arts colleges like Hampshire and Bard have \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/19/hampshire-becomes-only-competitive-college-country-wont-look-sat-act-scores\" target=\"_blank\">announced they won’t consider SAT or ACT scores \u003c/a>if they're submitted with an application, because admissions officers don’t believe the tests are a good measure of students' potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board is trying to push back against some of the negative press by partnering with Khan Academy to offer free test prep materials that all students can access. They’re also doing more to reach out to the many qualified students in the lower quartile of income who never apply to university with specialized packets detailing how they can apply for assistance to pay for application fees and tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS WORK IN COLLEGE MEANINGFUL?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many educators would argue that even once students make it to college -- the stated goal of many high schools -- the education they receive there isn’t preparing them to become innovative thinkers and engaged citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/Friedman-Miller-Wagner.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-36437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/Friedman-Miller-Wagner-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Friedman, Richard Miller and Tony Wagner discuss education at the Next New World Conference in San Francisco. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Friedman, Richard Miller and Tony Wagner discuss education at the Next New World Conference in San Francisco. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gallup recently did a \u003ca href=\"http://products.gallup.com/168857/gallup-purdue-index-inaugural-national-report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">study of college graduates\u003c/a> to gauge how engaged they are with their work and whether they are thriving in the world. In the past, the most studies centered around on how much college graduates earned compared to peers without degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found that student who felt supported -- that their professors cared about them as individuals, that professors made them want to learn, that they had a mentor -- were three times more likely to thrive as those who did not feel supported. Only 14 percent of college graduates answered that all three of those qualities were present in their college experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even fewer college graduates found their higher education experience to be relevant to life and work after college. Only six percent reported with strong affirmatives that they worked on a long term project (at least a semester), had an internship where they could apply skills, and were very engaged in an extracurricular. If a graduate answered “strongly agree” to all three of these qualities he or she was three times as likely to be engaged at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers show that colleges, like K-12 institutions, need to care for individual learners. Feeling connected and mentored makes a difference, just as understanding how learning is relevant and applicable makes students feel prepared for life after college. Without a move in that direction, the U.S. risks continuing to educate young people who go into the workplace disengaged and less likely to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OLIN COLLEGE TRIES NEW MODEL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olin.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Olin College\u003c/a> identified the gap in skilled workers ready for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math and decided to start over with a completely different kind of university. To apply, students visit the college and work in groups on projects. College staff are evaluating them for how they will fit in at the university, primarily looking for strong problem solvers and people who know how to make things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Its purpose is to produce education innovators,” said Richard Miller, president and professor at Olin College. The Massachusetts college is an education laboratory. There are no departments, no tenure, no tuition and the curriculum has an expiration date so that it stays relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Olin is essentially a 'maker' university,” Miller said. In one class, students are asked to identify a group of people whose lives they want to change. Through research and interviews they develop a sociological profile of the group that is used to come up with two to three systems, devices or technologies that don’t already exist and that the group says would make a difference in their lives. Students then develop the specifications for the product and show how to build it. By the end of the course they have the outline for a patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time they graduate a significant fraction of them already have companies they are working on,” Miller said. While the school focuses on STEM, students learn about business too. Miller hopes these students leave school thinking about how they can change the world, not about what job they will get. “We are taking too narrow of a view of what the sciences are and trying to make them too technical,” Miller said. In his mind, an innovator is someone who changes something so profoundly people can’t remember how it was before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are the power tools of change in education,” Miller said. “They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.” But, as Olin has found, when they are given free range to design, make and innovate they can be very powerful examples of what a great education can produce.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/36412/employers-challenge-to-educators-make-school-relevant-to-students-lives","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_1040","mindshift_68","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_36432","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_34131":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_34131","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"34131","score":null,"sort":[1392822006000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"students-question-whether-sat-fairly-measures-academic-skills","title":"New Study: SAT Scores Not the Only Indicator of College Success","publishDate":1392822006,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34137\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-34137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg\" alt=\"testing360\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ericnpr\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Westervelt\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">With spring fast approaching, many American high school seniors are now waiting anxiously to hear whether they got into the college or university of their choice. For many students, their scores on the SAT or the ACT will play a big role in where they get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because those standardized tests remain a central part in determining which students get accepted at many schools. But a first-of-its-kind study obtained by NPR raises questions about whether those tests are becoming obsolete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a drizzly Saturday in Belmont, Calif., high school students are walking out of the Belmont Library looking a little frazzled. They've just spent four hours communing with paper, chair and pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mara Meijer, a junior who wants to be a veterinarian, is among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of my teachers have said that if you don't have these scores, [colleges] won't even look at your applications,\" Meijer says. \"I have tons of books at home that I practice over the weekend and after school, so I can work on upping my score.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upping my score\" is a mantra for teens across the country. But Meijer questions — as do a growing number of students and parents — why America remains addicted to these standardized tests in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not exactly a fair way to show our skills,\" she says. \"I wish they could find some way to really show what we can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The nonsubmitters are doing fine in terms of their graduation rates and GPAs, and significantly outperforming their standardized testing.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional\" target=\"_blank\">some 800\u003c/a> of the roughly 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in America make SAT or ACT submissions optional. But before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nacacnet.org/research/research-data/nacac-research/Documents/DefiningPromise.pdf\">a new study released Tuesday\u003c/a>, no one had taken a hard, broad look at just how students who take advantage of \"test-optional\" policies are doing: how, for example, their grades and graduation rates stack up next to their counterparts who submitted their test results to admissions offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Human intelligence is so multifaceted, so complex, so varied, that no standardized testing system can be expected to capture it,\" says William Hiss, the study's main author. Hiss is the former dean of admissions at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine — one of the nation's first test-optional schools — and has been \u003ca href=\"http://npr.org/assets/news/2013/optionaltestingpaper19842009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">conducting similar research\u003c/a> for a number of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DOING WELL, DESPITE MODEST SCORES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that this study will be a first step in examining what happens when you admit tens of thousands of students without looking at their SAT scores,\" Hiss says. \"And the answer is, if they have good high school grades, they're almost certainly going to be fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss' study, \"Defining Promise: Optional Standardized Testing Policies in American College and University Admissions,\" examined data from nearly three-dozen \"test-optional\" U.S. schools, ranging from small liberal arts schools to large public universities, over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss found that there was virtually no difference in grades and graduation rates between test \"submitters\" and \"nonsubmitters.\" Just 0.05 percent of a GPA point separated the students who submitted their scores to admissions offices and those who did not. And college graduation rates for \"nonsubmitters\" were just 0.6 percent lower than those students who submitted their test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The six public universities included in the study are de facto test-optional; these schools collect scores but generally do not use them to determine admission unless a student's rank or high school grade point average is below a given threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"03c4481c7cb394c7091d94c91b56aa24\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Sixty-three percent of all enrollees at the public universities included in the study were admitted without testing taken into account. The study excludes or controlled for one subset of those students: The 35 percent of those applicants who tested above their institution's average scores. Those students would likely have been admitted, Hiss says, if their test scores were considered. Twenty-eight of the public school students included in the study had below-average scores and were admitted by their school's automatic admissions policy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By any statistical methodology [these are] completely trivial differences,\" Hiss explains. \"The nonsubmitters are doing fine in terms of their graduation rates and GPAs, and significantly outperforming their standardized testing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, those students actually performed better in college than their SAT and ACT stores might lead an admissions officer to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HIGH SCHOOL GRADES MATTER\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study has another clear result: High school grades matter — a lot. For both those students who submitted their test results to their colleges and those who did not, high school grades were the best predictor of a student's success in college. And kids who had low or modest test scores, but good high school grades, did better in college than those with good scores but modest grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss says it's probably not so surprising that a pattern of hard work, discipline and curiosity in high school shows up \"as highly predictive, in contrast to what they do in three or four hours on a particular Saturday morning in a testing room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are calling this study a potential game-changer that may prompt schools to evaluate whether there is value in requiring standardized tests. Before now, data on outcomes for test-optional programs were almost always school-specific or largely anecdotal, says Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/\">FairTest\u003c/a>, a longtime critic of standardized testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now we have a study that covers 123,000 students at 33 institutions over eight years. And the conclusion: that test-optional admissions improves diversity [and] does not undermine academic quality,\" Schaeffer says. \"Now more [colleges] and universities will have the data they need to support dropping ACT and SAT requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So just how \u003cem>did\u003c/em> the U.S. come to rely so much on standardized test scores? The SAT grew out of an Army IQ test that got the attention of presidents at two prestigious Ivy League schools. In the late 1930s the SAT became a scholarship test for all of the Ivies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, Hiss says, most every school followed the Ivies with good intentions: to try to \"open up access to colleges and universities, and to allow young people coming out of unfancy social backgrounds to be noticed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big test, the theory went, would allow more \"diamond in the rough\" students to be found and accepted to top schools, regardless of family connections or money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hiss argues that what started as a single tool became an overused pillar of admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scores, while they still certainly can help spot a highly talented person coming out of a different sort of a background ... serve more to truncate access than to open it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Fraire, vice president for student affairs and enrollment at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., agrees. WSU is one of the large test-optional public universities that took part in the study. Fraire believes that standardized tests are artificially narrowing the pool of students applying to some colleges. Students who do badly on tests, he says, may not even bother to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some ways, it's discouraging students who have great potential for success [from applying to] a particular school,\" he says. \"Most of our students [at WSU] aren't from privileged backgrounds. They're from the rural communities, the inner-city Latino community, African-American community. And that's why I think this study is so important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MORE INFORMATION IS BETTER\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private test preparation market for the SAT and the ACT is a $2 billion-a-year industry in the U.S. Critics of the tests have long said the exams better reflect a family's income and a student's speed at test-taking than aptitude, competency or intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials at the College Board, which administers and manages the SAT, say the test is always evolving. James Montoya, the College Board's vice president for higher education, says he's heartened by the study's conclusion that high school grades matter a lot in determining college success. And he points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/09/14/new-research-finds-sat-equally-predictive-those-high-and-low-socioeconomic-status\">previous study\u003c/a> that showed SAT scores, when combined with grades, proved a strong predictor of first-year college success across economic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Montoya says, the SAT expands opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The information in this study, of course, is valuable. But I also think it needs to be put into context in relationship to the many thousands of colleges and universities who find that the SAT is an extremely useful tool in the admissions process,\" Montoya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne Camara, ACT's senior vice president of research, doesn't dispute the study's results but adds that \"more information is always better in admissions decisions. ... Another reason why tests are also important is to ensure that grade inflation is held at bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bates report may end up adding to the current public policy debate in Washington, D.C. There's a renewed push, led by President Obama, to expand the college pool — especially by getting more low-income and minority students into college, as well as more young people who will be the first generation in their family to attend. The Bates study shows that test nonsubmitters are more likely to be precisely those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study's authors believe test-optional policies can help students from all backgrounds. Evy Borkan, 20, of Portland, Ore., says she benefited from a test-optional admissions policy. She was a strong student in high school, but she didn't have great SAT scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did well in my classes in high school. I worked hard in them, and I felt really comfortable with sending in my GPA,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borkan was drawn to Pitzer College, a liberal arts school near Los Angeles. She liked the feel of the place and its academic offerings — and another big factor, she says, was that submitting SAT scores was optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just liked the fact that they were putting into question the merit [that] SAT scores can hold on a college application, and that just made me feel more comfortable,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a Pitzer sophomore, Borkan is doing very well. The \"test-optional\" kids, it seems, are more than all right; this study shows that they're thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2014 NPR.\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many students who don't ace the SAT and ACT tests apply to schools that make standardized test scores optional. A new study shows those students do just as well in college as those who submit their scores.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1394420626,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1729},"headData":{"title":"New Study: SAT Scores Not the Only Indicator of College Success | KQED","description":"Many students who don't ace the SAT and ACT tests apply to schools that make standardized test scores optional. A new study shows those students do just as well in college as those who submit their scores.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"New Study: SAT Scores Not the Only Indicator of College Success","datePublished":"2014-02-19T15:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2014-03-10T03:03:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"34131 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=34131","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/19/students-question-whether-sat-fairly-measures-academic-skills/","disqusTitle":"New Study: SAT Scores Not the Only Indicator of College Success","nprByline":"Eric Westervelt","nprStoryId":"277059528","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=277059528&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/277059528/college-applicants-sweat-the-sats-perhaps-they-shouldn-t?ft=3&f=277059528","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:03:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 18 Feb 2014 03:29:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:20:42 -0500","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/02/20140218_me_college_applicants_sweat_the_sats_perhaps_they_shouldnt.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&ft=3&f=277059528","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1278952424-dcd946.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1013&ft=3&f=277059528","path":"/mindshift/34131/students-question-whether-sat-fairly-measures-academic-skills","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/02/20140218_me_college_applicants_sweat_the_sats_perhaps_they_shouldnt.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&ft=3&f=277059528","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34137\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-34137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg\" alt=\"testing360\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/02/testing360-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ericnpr\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Westervelt\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">With spring fast approaching, many American high school seniors are now waiting anxiously to hear whether they got into the college or university of their choice. For many students, their scores on the SAT or the ACT will play a big role in where they get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because those standardized tests remain a central part in determining which students get accepted at many schools. But a first-of-its-kind study obtained by NPR raises questions about whether those tests are becoming obsolete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a drizzly Saturday in Belmont, Calif., high school students are walking out of the Belmont Library looking a little frazzled. They've just spent four hours communing with paper, chair and pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mara Meijer, a junior who wants to be a veterinarian, is among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of my teachers have said that if you don't have these scores, [colleges] won't even look at your applications,\" Meijer says. \"I have tons of books at home that I practice over the weekend and after school, so I can work on upping my score.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upping my score\" is a mantra for teens across the country. But Meijer questions — as do a growing number of students and parents — why America remains addicted to these standardized tests in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not exactly a fair way to show our skills,\" she says. \"I wish they could find some way to really show what we can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The nonsubmitters are doing fine in terms of their graduation rates and GPAs, and significantly outperforming their standardized testing.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional\" target=\"_blank\">some 800\u003c/a> of the roughly 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in America make SAT or ACT submissions optional. But before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nacacnet.org/research/research-data/nacac-research/Documents/DefiningPromise.pdf\">a new study released Tuesday\u003c/a>, no one had taken a hard, broad look at just how students who take advantage of \"test-optional\" policies are doing: how, for example, their grades and graduation rates stack up next to their counterparts who submitted their test results to admissions offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Human intelligence is so multifaceted, so complex, so varied, that no standardized testing system can be expected to capture it,\" says William Hiss, the study's main author. Hiss is the former dean of admissions at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine — one of the nation's first test-optional schools — and has been \u003ca href=\"http://npr.org/assets/news/2013/optionaltestingpaper19842009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">conducting similar research\u003c/a> for a number of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DOING WELL, DESPITE MODEST SCORES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that this study will be a first step in examining what happens when you admit tens of thousands of students without looking at their SAT scores,\" Hiss says. \"And the answer is, if they have good high school grades, they're almost certainly going to be fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss' study, \"Defining Promise: Optional Standardized Testing Policies in American College and University Admissions,\" examined data from nearly three-dozen \"test-optional\" U.S. schools, ranging from small liberal arts schools to large public universities, over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss found that there was virtually no difference in grades and graduation rates between test \"submitters\" and \"nonsubmitters.\" Just 0.05 percent of a GPA point separated the students who submitted their scores to admissions offices and those who did not. And college graduation rates for \"nonsubmitters\" were just 0.6 percent lower than those students who submitted their test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The six public universities included in the study are de facto test-optional; these schools collect scores but generally do not use them to determine admission unless a student's rank or high school grade point average is below a given threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Sixty-three percent of all enrollees at the public universities included in the study were admitted without testing taken into account. The study excludes or controlled for one subset of those students: The 35 percent of those applicants who tested above their institution's average scores. Those students would likely have been admitted, Hiss says, if their test scores were considered. Twenty-eight of the public school students included in the study had below-average scores and were admitted by their school's automatic admissions policy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By any statistical methodology [these are] completely trivial differences,\" Hiss explains. \"The nonsubmitters are doing fine in terms of their graduation rates and GPAs, and significantly outperforming their standardized testing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, those students actually performed better in college than their SAT and ACT stores might lead an admissions officer to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HIGH SCHOOL GRADES MATTER\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study has another clear result: High school grades matter — a lot. For both those students who submitted their test results to their colleges and those who did not, high school grades were the best predictor of a student's success in college. And kids who had low or modest test scores, but good high school grades, did better in college than those with good scores but modest grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiss says it's probably not so surprising that a pattern of hard work, discipline and curiosity in high school shows up \"as highly predictive, in contrast to what they do in three or four hours on a particular Saturday morning in a testing room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are calling this study a potential game-changer that may prompt schools to evaluate whether there is value in requiring standardized tests. Before now, data on outcomes for test-optional programs were almost always school-specific or largely anecdotal, says Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/\">FairTest\u003c/a>, a longtime critic of standardized testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now we have a study that covers 123,000 students at 33 institutions over eight years. And the conclusion: that test-optional admissions improves diversity [and] does not undermine academic quality,\" Schaeffer says. \"Now more [colleges] and universities will have the data they need to support dropping ACT and SAT requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So just how \u003cem>did\u003c/em> the U.S. come to rely so much on standardized test scores? The SAT grew out of an Army IQ test that got the attention of presidents at two prestigious Ivy League schools. In the late 1930s the SAT became a scholarship test for all of the Ivies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, Hiss says, most every school followed the Ivies with good intentions: to try to \"open up access to colleges and universities, and to allow young people coming out of unfancy social backgrounds to be noticed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big test, the theory went, would allow more \"diamond in the rough\" students to be found and accepted to top schools, regardless of family connections or money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hiss argues that what started as a single tool became an overused pillar of admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scores, while they still certainly can help spot a highly talented person coming out of a different sort of a background ... serve more to truncate access than to open it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Fraire, vice president for student affairs and enrollment at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., agrees. WSU is one of the large test-optional public universities that took part in the study. Fraire believes that standardized tests are artificially narrowing the pool of students applying to some colleges. Students who do badly on tests, he says, may not even bother to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some ways, it's discouraging students who have great potential for success [from applying to] a particular school,\" he says. \"Most of our students [at WSU] aren't from privileged backgrounds. They're from the rural communities, the inner-city Latino community, African-American community. And that's why I think this study is so important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MORE INFORMATION IS BETTER\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private test preparation market for the SAT and the ACT is a $2 billion-a-year industry in the U.S. Critics of the tests have long said the exams better reflect a family's income and a student's speed at test-taking than aptitude, competency or intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials at the College Board, which administers and manages the SAT, say the test is always evolving. James Montoya, the College Board's vice president for higher education, says he's heartened by the study's conclusion that high school grades matter a lot in determining college success. And he points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/09/14/new-research-finds-sat-equally-predictive-those-high-and-low-socioeconomic-status\">previous study\u003c/a> that showed SAT scores, when combined with grades, proved a strong predictor of first-year college success across economic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Montoya says, the SAT expands opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The information in this study, of course, is valuable. But I also think it needs to be put into context in relationship to the many thousands of colleges and universities who find that the SAT is an extremely useful tool in the admissions process,\" Montoya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne Camara, ACT's senior vice president of research, doesn't dispute the study's results but adds that \"more information is always better in admissions decisions. ... Another reason why tests are also important is to ensure that grade inflation is held at bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bates report may end up adding to the current public policy debate in Washington, D.C. There's a renewed push, led by President Obama, to expand the college pool — especially by getting more low-income and minority students into college, as well as more young people who will be the first generation in their family to attend. The Bates study shows that test nonsubmitters are more likely to be precisely those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study's authors believe test-optional policies can help students from all backgrounds. Evy Borkan, 20, of Portland, Ore., says she benefited from a test-optional admissions policy. She was a strong student in high school, but she didn't have great SAT scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did well in my classes in high school. I worked hard in them, and I felt really comfortable with sending in my GPA,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borkan was drawn to Pitzer College, a liberal arts school near Los Angeles. She liked the feel of the place and its academic offerings — and another big factor, she says, was that submitting SAT scores was optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just liked the fact that they were putting into question the merit [that] SAT scores can hold on a college application, and that just made me feel more comfortable,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a Pitzer sophomore, Borkan is doing very well. The \"test-optional\" kids, it seems, are more than all right; this study shows that they're thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2014 NPR.\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/34131/students-question-whether-sat-fairly-measures-academic-skills","authors":["byline_mindshift_34131"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_108","mindshift_1040","mindshift_68","mindshift_381","mindshift_464"],"featImg":"mindshift_34137","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_32322":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_32322","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"32322","score":null,"sort":[1384444857000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-the-new-sat-be-a-better-barometer-for-college-readiness","title":"Will the New SAT Be a Better Barometer for College Readiness?","publishDate":1384444857,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_32622\" class=\"module image center mceTemp\" style=\"width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-32622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg\" alt=\"7615682432_e2614e3b56_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tim Sheerman-Chase\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">For the fifth year in a row, less than 50 percent of high schoolers reached the “college and career ready” SAT Benchmark score of 1550, according to the 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/cb-seniors-2013\">SAT Report on College and Career Readiness\u003c/a> provided by the College Board. While underrepresented minorities’ scores made small gains, and minority test-takers were at an all-time high, the Board agreed that an overall cause for concern was warranted. “This number has remained virtually unchanged for the past five years,” the report stated, “underscoring a need to dramatically increase the number of K-12 students who acquire the skills and knowledge that research demonstrates are critical to college readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The report shows a direct link between meeting the Benchmark of 1550 and college completion, showing that 54 percent of students scoring 1550 or above completed college in four years, and 77 percent within six. Conversely, only 24 percent of those scoring below 1550 completed college in four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">At the same time, newly appointed College Board President (and Common Core designer) David Coleman has promised to re-make the SAT. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/what-the-new-sat-and-digital-act-might-look-like.html?pagewanted=all\">New York Times article\u003c/a> reported him saying that the test should focus on “things that matter more so that the endless hours students put into practicing for the SAT will be work that’s worth doing,” and says “the heart” of the new SAT will be analyzing evidence in a range of subjects, from math to literacy to history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new test is slated to be revealed in January, and as of now it’s hard to know specifically what the changes will actually look like, and in what ways the test will be “improved” for test takers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“The idea that any one factor can accurately capture the complexity of factors of achievement is ludicrous.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The SAT, as it exists now, is the best assessment out there that predicts college and career readiness. And with the understanding that even the best can be better, we’re working with our members on an evidence-based redesign of the exam,” said Carly Lindauer, Senior Director of External Communications at College Board. Without providing any examples of test questions or design, Lindauer did speak to why the Board believes the SAT needs an overhaul: rigor and access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redesign of the SAT will be based on the evidence of what college and career readiness entails,” Lindauer said. “This is the same evidence that underpins the Common Core and other rigorous state standards. Our objective is to ensure that the SAT better meets the changing needs of students, schools and colleges at all levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the report as a guide, the College Board recognizes that the 43 percent of test takers who did meet the 1500 Benchmark have several things in common: they have completed a core curriculum (defined as four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of natural science, and three years of history), they have taken honors or AP courses and higher level math, like trigonometry or pre-calculus. The Board said it has realized that their work goes beyond designing and scoring the test, but providing support to get more students in a place where they can reach the Benchmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This is truly an access issue and it is a call to action for the College Board,” Lindauer said. “The College Board is working with partners to ensure that every student who demonstrates AP potential has access to the rigorous coursework that will prepare them for college success. Last year alone there were 300,000 students with the potential to succeed in an AP course who didn’t take one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">They also recognize the cost may be prohibitive for some high-achievers, and said that 50 percent of high-achieving, low-income students attend less selective colleges where fewer students earn a four-year degree. Lindauer said the College Board is working on expanding access to fee waivers and \u003ca href=\"http://professionals.collegeboard.com/higher-ed/recruitment/sat-test/school-day\">SAT School Day\u003c/a>, in which students can take the SAT during a school day at their local high school, with fees paid for by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHALLENGING STATUS QUO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some organizations, colleges and universities are challenging the notion that the SAT -- re-vamped or not -- provides an accurate picture of whether or not a student is prepared for college-level work. Outspoken college professors like Anne Ruggles Gere of the University of Michigan have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=240954501&ft=1&f=1013\">blasted the essay portion of the test\u003c/a> for being \"simplistic, reductive,\" and emphasizing length and word size over content and meaning. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/didnt-ace-sat-just-design-microbe-transplant-research.html\">Bard College made waves\u003c/a> recently for announcing that beginning this fall, students can opt out of standardized testing and write four assigned 2,500-word essays instead, attempting to return college admissions to its original goal of “rewarding the best candidates, rather than just those who are best able to market themselves to admissions committees,” according to The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">And MIT is expanding admissions with a new \u003ca href=\"http://makezine.com/2013/08/16/mit-welcomes-makers/\">maker portfolio\u003c/a> option, a structured way in which students can share the projects they’ve been working on, from robots to theatrical costumes to symphonies. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/02/21/essay-questions-obsession-over-ap-courses\">MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill\u003c/a>, “The essence of what colleges want is for students to be engaged in whatever they are doing. We don’t want students who do things because they have to, or because they think it will look good on their résumé. We want students to do things because they find true enjoyment and personal growth from them. That’s the way that young people — and, for that matter, old people and middle-aged people — thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e8eb9eb03de860c9c70e3a1d0aec3df7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Bard and MIT aren’t the only universities fed up with the limits of standardized testing in college admissions, said Bob Schaeffer, public education director at The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/\">FairTest\u003c/a>. According to the the FairTest website, more than \u003ca href=\"http://fairtest.org/university/optional\">800 accredited colleges\u003c/a> and universities do not require SAT or ACT scores from all students before granting admissions; of that 800, more than 150 are first-tier in their respective categories, according to \u003cem>US News and World Report\u003c/em> rankings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schaeffer said FairTest is skeptical of the new SAT, and wonders whether Coleman’s new redesign is more marketing campaign than assessment improvement. “Given that the test underwent a comprehensive overhaul less than a decade ago,” he said, “we are suspicious that the current initiative may be primarily a public relations ploy by incoming College Board President David Coleman aimed at regaining market share from the ACT, which has taken over as the nation's most popular undergraduate admissions test in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FairTest argues that the ideal “test” for college applicants is four years of coursework, plus projects and performances, and \u003ca href=\"http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/ROPS.GEISER._SAT_6.12.07.pdf\">cites research \u003c/a>that high school grades make a better predictor for college success than any standardized test scores, including the SAT and ACT. While Schaeffer agrees with the College Board that rigorous high school classes prepare kids for college, “The idea that any one factor [like taking the SAT] can accurately capture the complexity of factors of achievement is ludicrous,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">For many students, however, the SAT is still considered a major hurdle to college admissions, and they feel compelled to take it. Eighteen-year-old Cristian Padilla, a senior in Atlanta, Georgia, said that he took the test once in the spring of his junior year, but he’s taking the SAT again this fall because a good score is required from the colleges he’s interested in. But Padilla said he wasn’t aware that the test was important to get into college until late in the game. “It was a new thing for me when I had to take it [the SAT] because I did not know of such test until my late sophomore year,” he said. “Furthermore, I was never told of the importance of this test. For this reason I never prepared for it, nor did I feel obliged to do so. My ideal score would be at least an 1800, but even that seems far-fetched since I am taking only my second time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">For Padilla, the cost of tutors and the test itself makes it difficult to get a good score, because he can’t afford to take it more than twice. “I have been preparing for the test simply by purchasing the SAT blue study guide book,” he said. “I don't have a tutor (even though I wish), because it's expensive and out of reach of my family's affordability. I try to use the book myself and take practice tests, but I find it hard to stay on it because it distracts from my in-school work and learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In Ilsan, South Korea, high school senior Chaesong Kim is also studying for her second try at the SAT, with hopes to attain her ideal score of 2300 and gain entrance to an American university. After studying with a personal study guide for two years, this year Kim is attending a private SAT academy where tutors help her to get a better score, some of which have been accused of cheating, causing the College Board to \u003ca href=\"http://news.msn.com/world/cheating-scandal-sat-canceled-for-all-of-south-korea\">cancel all SAT tests\u003c/a> in South Korea last May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Ironically, Kim is working hard at memorizing vocabulary and test-taking techniques for the SAT so she can gain intellectual freedom from more tests. She believes a good SAT score will gain her admission to an American school where she can start studying performance art and Chinese, and stop memorizing. “I believe American colleges will allow more freedom,” she said. “This freedom not only includes the right to choose whichever courses I want to take but also the freedom from school, parents and ‘duty’ which all limit the students from participating in activities other than studying on a chair through text books. This is not granted freely in Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While on different sides of the socio-economic spectrum as well as the globe, Padilla and Kim do agree that the SAT isn’t a good measure of what they know, or what they will be able to achieve in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“My impression of the SAT is that it does not actually deal with factual information, which I ‘learn,’ but it focuses more on the parts that can be ‘trained.’ It trains you to read, interpret and understand in a certain way, to recognize certain patterns as errors, and to brainstorm rapidly to complete an essay,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s concerned he’s at a disadvantage from the beginning, considering he doesn’t attend a high-achieving school that provides lots of AP classes and SAT prep classes. “The test is not hard, but from what I've observed, it is more than a test. There's more strategy to it than just simple knowledge and application. I feel that if I was more prepared for it, I would do better, but that is not the case,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new test is slated to be revealed in January, and as of now it’s hard to know specifically what the changes will actually look like, and in what ways the test will be “improved” for test takers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1385140949,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":1909},"headData":{"title":"Will the New SAT Be a Better Barometer for College Readiness? | KQED","description":"The new test is slated to be revealed in January, and as of now it’s hard to know specifically what the changes will actually look like, and in what ways the test will be “improved” for test takers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Will the New SAT Be a Better Barometer for College Readiness?","datePublished":"2013-11-14T16:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2013-11-22T17:22:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"32322 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=32322","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/14/will-the-new-sat-be-a-better-barometer-for-college-readiness/","disqusTitle":"Will the New SAT Be a Better Barometer for College Readiness?","path":"/mindshift/32322/will-the-new-sat-be-a-better-barometer-for-college-readiness","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_32622\" class=\"module image center mceTemp\" style=\"width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-32622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg\" alt=\"7615682432_e2614e3b56_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/11/7615682432_e2614e3b56_z-e1384296925941-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tim Sheerman-Chase\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">For the fifth year in a row, less than 50 percent of high schoolers reached the “college and career ready” SAT Benchmark score of 1550, according to the 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/cb-seniors-2013\">SAT Report on College and Career Readiness\u003c/a> provided by the College Board. While underrepresented minorities’ scores made small gains, and minority test-takers were at an all-time high, the Board agreed that an overall cause for concern was warranted. “This number has remained virtually unchanged for the past five years,” the report stated, “underscoring a need to dramatically increase the number of K-12 students who acquire the skills and knowledge that research demonstrates are critical to college readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The report shows a direct link between meeting the Benchmark of 1550 and college completion, showing that 54 percent of students scoring 1550 or above completed college in four years, and 77 percent within six. Conversely, only 24 percent of those scoring below 1550 completed college in four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">At the same time, newly appointed College Board President (and Common Core designer) David Coleman has promised to re-make the SAT. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/what-the-new-sat-and-digital-act-might-look-like.html?pagewanted=all\">New York Times article\u003c/a> reported him saying that the test should focus on “things that matter more so that the endless hours students put into practicing for the SAT will be work that’s worth doing,” and says “the heart” of the new SAT will be analyzing evidence in a range of subjects, from math to literacy to history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new test is slated to be revealed in January, and as of now it’s hard to know specifically what the changes will actually look like, and in what ways the test will be “improved” for test takers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“The idea that any one factor can accurately capture the complexity of factors of achievement is ludicrous.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The SAT, as it exists now, is the best assessment out there that predicts college and career readiness. And with the understanding that even the best can be better, we’re working with our members on an evidence-based redesign of the exam,” said Carly Lindauer, Senior Director of External Communications at College Board. Without providing any examples of test questions or design, Lindauer did speak to why the Board believes the SAT needs an overhaul: rigor and access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redesign of the SAT will be based on the evidence of what college and career readiness entails,” Lindauer said. “This is the same evidence that underpins the Common Core and other rigorous state standards. Our objective is to ensure that the SAT better meets the changing needs of students, schools and colleges at all levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the report as a guide, the College Board recognizes that the 43 percent of test takers who did meet the 1500 Benchmark have several things in common: they have completed a core curriculum (defined as four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of natural science, and three years of history), they have taken honors or AP courses and higher level math, like trigonometry or pre-calculus. The Board said it has realized that their work goes beyond designing and scoring the test, but providing support to get more students in a place where they can reach the Benchmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This is truly an access issue and it is a call to action for the College Board,” Lindauer said. “The College Board is working with partners to ensure that every student who demonstrates AP potential has access to the rigorous coursework that will prepare them for college success. Last year alone there were 300,000 students with the potential to succeed in an AP course who didn’t take one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">They also recognize the cost may be prohibitive for some high-achievers, and said that 50 percent of high-achieving, low-income students attend less selective colleges where fewer students earn a four-year degree. Lindauer said the College Board is working on expanding access to fee waivers and \u003ca href=\"http://professionals.collegeboard.com/higher-ed/recruitment/sat-test/school-day\">SAT School Day\u003c/a>, in which students can take the SAT during a school day at their local high school, with fees paid for by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHALLENGING STATUS QUO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some organizations, colleges and universities are challenging the notion that the SAT -- re-vamped or not -- provides an accurate picture of whether or not a student is prepared for college-level work. Outspoken college professors like Anne Ruggles Gere of the University of Michigan have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=240954501&ft=1&f=1013\">blasted the essay portion of the test\u003c/a> for being \"simplistic, reductive,\" and emphasizing length and word size over content and meaning. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/didnt-ace-sat-just-design-microbe-transplant-research.html\">Bard College made waves\u003c/a> recently for announcing that beginning this fall, students can opt out of standardized testing and write four assigned 2,500-word essays instead, attempting to return college admissions to its original goal of “rewarding the best candidates, rather than just those who are best able to market themselves to admissions committees,” according to The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">And MIT is expanding admissions with a new \u003ca href=\"http://makezine.com/2013/08/16/mit-welcomes-makers/\">maker portfolio\u003c/a> option, a structured way in which students can share the projects they’ve been working on, from robots to theatrical costumes to symphonies. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/02/21/essay-questions-obsession-over-ap-courses\">MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill\u003c/a>, “The essence of what colleges want is for students to be engaged in whatever they are doing. We don’t want students who do things because they have to, or because they think it will look good on their résumé. We want students to do things because they find true enjoyment and personal growth from them. That’s the way that young people — and, for that matter, old people and middle-aged people — thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Bard and MIT aren’t the only universities fed up with the limits of standardized testing in college admissions, said Bob Schaeffer, public education director at The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairtest.org/\">FairTest\u003c/a>. According to the the FairTest website, more than \u003ca href=\"http://fairtest.org/university/optional\">800 accredited colleges\u003c/a> and universities do not require SAT or ACT scores from all students before granting admissions; of that 800, more than 150 are first-tier in their respective categories, according to \u003cem>US News and World Report\u003c/em> rankings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schaeffer said FairTest is skeptical of the new SAT, and wonders whether Coleman’s new redesign is more marketing campaign than assessment improvement. “Given that the test underwent a comprehensive overhaul less than a decade ago,” he said, “we are suspicious that the current initiative may be primarily a public relations ploy by incoming College Board President David Coleman aimed at regaining market share from the ACT, which has taken over as the nation's most popular undergraduate admissions test in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FairTest argues that the ideal “test” for college applicants is four years of coursework, plus projects and performances, and \u003ca href=\"http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/ROPS.GEISER._SAT_6.12.07.pdf\">cites research \u003c/a>that high school grades make a better predictor for college success than any standardized test scores, including the SAT and ACT. While Schaeffer agrees with the College Board that rigorous high school classes prepare kids for college, “The idea that any one factor [like taking the SAT] can accurately capture the complexity of factors of achievement is ludicrous,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">For many students, however, the SAT is still considered a major hurdle to college admissions, and they feel compelled to take it. Eighteen-year-old Cristian Padilla, a senior in Atlanta, Georgia, said that he took the test once in the spring of his junior year, but he’s taking the SAT again this fall because a good score is required from the colleges he’s interested in. But Padilla said he wasn’t aware that the test was important to get into college until late in the game. “It was a new thing for me when I had to take it [the SAT] because I did not know of such test until my late sophomore year,” he said. “Furthermore, I was never told of the importance of this test. For this reason I never prepared for it, nor did I feel obliged to do so. My ideal score would be at least an 1800, but even that seems far-fetched since I am taking only my second time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">For Padilla, the cost of tutors and the test itself makes it difficult to get a good score, because he can’t afford to take it more than twice. “I have been preparing for the test simply by purchasing the SAT blue study guide book,” he said. “I don't have a tutor (even though I wish), because it's expensive and out of reach of my family's affordability. I try to use the book myself and take practice tests, but I find it hard to stay on it because it distracts from my in-school work and learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In Ilsan, South Korea, high school senior Chaesong Kim is also studying for her second try at the SAT, with hopes to attain her ideal score of 2300 and gain entrance to an American university. After studying with a personal study guide for two years, this year Kim is attending a private SAT academy where tutors help her to get a better score, some of which have been accused of cheating, causing the College Board to \u003ca href=\"http://news.msn.com/world/cheating-scandal-sat-canceled-for-all-of-south-korea\">cancel all SAT tests\u003c/a> in South Korea last May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Ironically, Kim is working hard at memorizing vocabulary and test-taking techniques for the SAT so she can gain intellectual freedom from more tests. She believes a good SAT score will gain her admission to an American school where she can start studying performance art and Chinese, and stop memorizing. “I believe American colleges will allow more freedom,” she said. “This freedom not only includes the right to choose whichever courses I want to take but also the freedom from school, parents and ‘duty’ which all limit the students from participating in activities other than studying on a chair through text books. This is not granted freely in Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While on different sides of the socio-economic spectrum as well as the globe, Padilla and Kim do agree that the SAT isn’t a good measure of what they know, or what they will be able to achieve in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“My impression of the SAT is that it does not actually deal with factual information, which I ‘learn,’ but it focuses more on the parts that can be ‘trained.’ It trains you to read, interpret and understand in a certain way, to recognize certain patterns as errors, and to brainstorm rapidly to complete an essay,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s concerned he’s at a disadvantage from the beginning, considering he doesn’t attend a high-achieving school that provides lots of AP classes and SAT prep classes. “The test is not hard, but from what I've observed, it is more than a test. There's more strategy to it than just simple knowledge and application. 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Saying the prevailing system was “loaded with a lot of nonsense that has nothing to do with learning,” he hailed the new approach as a “return to basics, to common sense” and added, “You ask the young person: are they prepared to do university-level work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"overflow: hidden\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/29/us/BARDS-1/BARDS-1-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/didnt-ace-sat-just-design-microbe-transplant-research.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">Didn't Ace SAT? Just Design Microbe Transplant Research\u003c/a>High school seniors with poor grades and even worse SAT scores, you may be just what one of the nation's most prestigious liberal arts colleges is looking for. You need not be president of the debate club or captain of the track team. No glowing teacher recommendations are required.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nytimes\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1380580333,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":167},"headData":{"title":"Bypassing the SAT Altogether | KQED","description":"A look at how students can bypass the SAT to get into a reputable college. “It’s kind of declaring war on the whole rigmarole of college admissions and the failure to foreground the curriculum and learning,” Leon Botstein, Bard’s president of 38 years, said in an interview. 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Saying the prevailing system was “loaded with a lot of nonsense that has nothing to do with learning,” he hailed the new approach as a “return to basics, to common sense” and added, “You ask the young person: are they prepared to do university-level work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"overflow: hidden\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/29/us/BARDS-1/BARDS-1-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/didnt-ace-sat-just-design-microbe-transplant-research.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">Didn't Ace SAT? Just Design Microbe Transplant Research\u003c/a>High school seniors with poor grades and even worse SAT scores, you may be just what one of the nation's most prestigious liberal arts colleges is looking for. You need not be president of the debate club or captain of the track team. 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