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About 800 freshmen at 13 colleges took a trial version of the test, called the Rainbow Project, in 2001. Teams of judges scored the creative portions for humor and originality. The raters graded the practical sections on the basis of conformity to social norms. The more closely students' responses matched the average test taker's, the higher their scores...
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...
Another impetus for the board to explore alternative tests is the persistence of gaps in SAT scores between racial and ethnic groups. Here, too, the Rainbow Project shows some promise. On the practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...
...1970s and 1980s the Rainbow Coalition made great strides in building a national coalition that included communities of color, labor and gays and lesbians. However, since the late 1980s, the Rainbow Coalition’s infrastructure, so vital to the evolution of a progressive agenda, has been left by the side of the road, and conservative groups, both Republican and Democratic, have passed...
Aimee Smith, a Cambridge City Council candidate running on the Green-Rainbow Party ticket, spoke at the rally in favor of creating a Patriot Act-free zone...