Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions

Steering Committee for the Workshop on Higher Education Admissions,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
26 July 1999
Pages
58
ISBN
9780309065979

Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions

Steering Committee for the Workshop on Higher Education Admissions,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

In 1996, more than 8 million students went through the complicated, stressful, and sometimes bewildering process of applying to colleges and universities in the United States. Much of the nail-biting centered around the standardized tests that those students took to gain entrance. The National Academies recently looked at some of the persistent myths about admission testing and examined the specific tradeoffs entailed in the use of these tests.

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