Word: aptitudeã
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...rules nonetheless. Most of us know we are at Harvard in part because of high scores on a test—the SAT—that can so obviously be “gamed” that it has renounced a previous claim to measure “aptitude?? and claims only to measure the “achievement” of taking a test well...
...sale or maturity.”Summers’ tenure as president, the shortest since the Civil War, ended in June 2006 with his resignation after heated struggle with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his statement that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? may explain the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering leadership positions, he was criticized for his ambiguous role in a federal fraud scandal involving economics professor and friend Andrei Shleifer ’82, as well as his reported firing of former Dean of the Faculty William...
When the SAT was first administered in 1926, it was intended to provide a neutral, unbiased assessment of the “aptitude?? of college applicants. The next 80 years, however, would prove the SAT to be anything but neutral. A good SAT score has always added sparkle to the resumes of the most affluent college applicants, while casting a shadow onto those from less privileged backgrounds. The SAT at times seems almost directly proportional to the amount of money one’s parents make. Among test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were...
1/14/05: President Summers speculates that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might account for the lack of females atop the science, math, and engineering fields...
...economics conference, former University President Lawrence H. Summers said that “intrinsic aptitude?? could partially account for the dearth of female scientists at elite universities...