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At the same time, the E.T.S. examiners insist that their tests do serve a valid academic function. Since grading standards vary enormously among the nation's 24,000 secondary schools, the S.A.T.s at the very least provide admissions officers with a national common denominator in helping judge the thousands...
Fair Yardstick. The charge of bias on the S.A.T.s is an old one. Since they were instituted in 1926, educators have variously accused E.T.S. of loading them against girls, rural youths, and most of the country outside the Northeast; the Testing Service, in fact, spends about $500,000 a year...
In addition, there were some new twists to the case for pass-fail this year. Cynics would argue that Harvard was nudged into action by Yale's new pass-fail and the publicity that surounded it. The CEP vote to approve pass-fail in principle came less than a week...
At its meeting this Monday, the Committee will consider suggestions for changes in the grading system, including the abolition of both ranking and averaging.
There is no reason, however, why the CEP can't consider fourth-course pass-fail on its own merits, and later this year take up the more basic questions of grading policy. The plan now before the CEP would provide a meaningful stimulant to greater course experimentation, and should be...