SAT Wars: EXPOSING NEW EVIDENCE OF FLAWS IN STANDARDIZED TESTS
SAT WARS: EXPOSING NEW EVIDENCE OF FLAWS IN STANDARDIZED TESTS SOURCE:WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY |HTTP://BIT.LY/VFKJ4O
Newswise — (Winston-Salem, N.C. – November 3, 2011) – In a revealing look at high-stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test-Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far-reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.
Wake Forest University Professor of Sociology Joseph Soares Wake Forest University photographer, Ken Bennett >>
Edited by Wake Forest University Professor of Sociology Joseph Soares, the book presents:
- New evidence of gender bias against women in the math section and racial biases against minorities built into the verbal section of the SAT;
- The only institutional admissions validity study ever published by a top-tier private research university, Johns Hopkins University;
- The only data ever published showing that test-optional and "don't ask, don't tell" test score practice