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...Schaeffer says numerous studies indicate that SAT questions discriminate against minorities and less privileged students...
...Trivial Pursuit--how one can answer 145 questions in a very short period with no context and in many instances no thought does not tell you anything about a person's ability to succeed in college," says Robert A. Schaeffer, public education director at Fairtest...
...hundred and twelve colleges across the country do not require the SAT for admission and several, including MIT, are de-emphasizing the value of a candidate's scores, Schaeffer says...
...Schaeffer says that with the increasing number of experts disputing the SAT's validity, he hopes the test will no longer be required for college admission...
Harvard University President Derek Bok was chairman of a commission that recommended the changes. The revision, he says, "begins to send a useful signal to schools that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test...