Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The October 17 article discussing "exam bias" is both confusing and lacking basis. Whether this is a result of irresponsible reporting or the irresponsible nature of Klitgaard's assertions, or a combination thereof, is open to question. For example, his primary assertion is "...that women and minorities at top universities...
*Caroline Hodges Persell of New York University states that "most ... scholastic aptitude tests used in schools are nationally standardized on white middle-class populations" and, therefore, cannot be said to be without bias so far as Blacks or people of other class positions are concerned.
By age 15, all Soviet students are slotted into distinct scholastic groups; only one of every five applicants wins entry into one of the country's 63 universities or 800 technical institutes. Competition is especially stiff for the top universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign...
Research by W. Timothy Weaver, an associate professor of education at Boston University, seems to confirm a long-standing charge that one of the easiest U.S. college majors is education. Weaver found the high school seniors who planned to major in education well below the average for all college-bound...
Then, last month, two Harvard Medical School researchers released a report of their own, which demonstrated test scores could be increased by coaching, that the Scholastic Aptitude Tests measured little on the way of true aptitude, and that ETS had lied consistently over the years about the value of its...