Word: chaunceys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began its life as an intelligence test, which its makers believed measured innate mental ability. Carl Brigham, the test's inventor, was part of the team that developed the Army intelligence tests during World War I; the first SAT was an adapted version of that test. Henry Chauncey, the founding president of the Educational Testing Service, and his boss during his previous job as an assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s and '40s, James Bryant Conant, chose the SAT as an admissions test because Conant saw it as an IQ test. In those days, high school was a relatively...
...Atkinson was addressing a situation that Conant and Chauncey didn't imagine. The SAT, now with millions of takers a year, has become a national fetish. A large portion of the high school student and parent population believes it is the main determinant of admission to a selective college, which in turn is the main determinant of one's eventual socioeconomic status (both propositions that the test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach...
After the speech, Chauncey expanded upon his thesis in light of audience members' questions and criticism...
Carey V. Johnson, a masters student at the School of Public Health and gay activist, said he came to hear Chauncey speak because he enjoyed Chauncey's 1994 book and wanted to hear him in person...
Robert W. Mack '71, a HGLC board member, said he was pleased by last night's attendance and by Chauncey's remarks...