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...California, like most state universities, used the SAT to make itself more selective and to set itself apart from the public high school system of its state. In the early 1960s, the university accredited California high schools and admitted many more students than it had room for, a large portion of whom dropped out or took longer than four years to graduate. With the advent of the SAT, the university stopped monitoring high school education and started accepting fewer students. Over the years, applications soared, and a series of increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious...
...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...
...will soon see, national achievement tests are going to set off a series of fights different but no less intense than the ones the SAT has set off. Teachers and schools, which will be, in effect, graded and will have at least a good portion of what they teach dictated to them by outsiders, won't especially like achievement tests. People will complain that the tests have transformed American schools into drill factories. If the tests are pitched at a high level, they will be accused of punishing poor and minority students, and if they are pitched...
...Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-min. portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...
...this week would be the time to offer up the pay service, before those users float away like partygoers when the beer runs out. The deadbeats and moochers, of course, will leave anyway, and there are plenty of alternatives (albeit not so user-friendly) out there. But a sizable portion of those 64 million really read Playboy for the articles - er, use Napster for the selection and convenience - and will stick around because deep down, they'll feel better if they kick in a few bucks for the privilege of access to the world's largest record store...