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...attend Yale University, but he never shook the sense that traditional tests are missing something. "You don't get to the top in life just on your IQ points or your SAT score," says Sternberg, now a professor at Yale and president of the American Psychological Association (APA). "You have to psych out the system. How do you measure that skill...
Those who took the test in its early phase were volunteers rather than a random sample of undergraduates. But the preliminary results, which Sternberg presented in August at an APA conference, were dramatic. The Rainbow Project was nearly twice as successful at predicting students' first-year college GPAs as their SAT scores had been. The College Board, which produces the SATs, is funding Sternberg's research because the ability to predict college performance from a test--any test--hasn't improved much in 50 years, says Wayne Camara, the board's vice president of research...
...Lhotse Face, traversed the Geneva Spur, hauled myself up the Hillary Step and finally, after two-and-a-half months, struggled onto the summit of Everest, it was impossible to shake the feeling that I was surrounded by ghosts. The recent fame of modern Sherpa climbers like Apa Sherpa, who has reached the summit 11 times, and Babu Chiri Sherpa who, before he was killed in 2001, completed a speed ascent in less than 17 hours, rests on decades of accumulated knowledge and sacrifice by the Sherpas who came before them: men like Tenzing Norgay, who braved the slopes seven...
Having the accreditation is key, but the current lack of APA approval is not really a problem, says Ann Masten, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development...
...There are jobs and internship training sites that require accreditation, but the University has a fine history in psychology... ideally it's preferred to go to an accredited program" said Masten, such as Minnesota's, which has had a clinical program accredited by the APA since...