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Note: At right is a list of the 5 entries in the "Higher Education" archive (most recent first).
Below, the entries are listed again in expanded form, with a short excerpt or summary from each entry.Higher Education Archives
Everyone's a Winner! August 06, 2005
Overheard in Chicago's O'Hare airport, from one young Navy man to another, "If they let him graduate, I'm gonna kill somebody." Hyperbole aside, what he meant was that a classmate of his had done something so wrong that he did not deserve to be awarded the same credential as him. It's unimportant here the actual offense--the point is this fellow... Posted by ceb into Higher Education
The 10 Percent Solution: 'Diversity' trumps Academic Preparation June 16, 2004
Recently both Joanne Jacobs and Kimberly Swygert have weighed in on the topic of the "talented tenth." Seems in Texas (and California and Florida) the powers-that-be decided to have a race-neutral university admissions policy--designed to nonetheless improve 'Diversity'--by accepting the top 10% of any high school class in the state, regardless of rigor. While some folks say it's a success... Posted by ceb into Higher Education
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Bias and the SAT February 11, 2004
One little paragraph in a Cornell Daily Sun article on the SAT quoted in a post by Kimberly Swygert really got us thinking. A common complaint about the SAT is that it is biased against minorities and the poor. This might be, oh, because minorities and the poor do worse, on average, than other test-takers. An open-and-shut case for bias,... Posted by ceb into Higher Education
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Future Teachers and SAT scores February 06, 2004
Each year, over a million college-bound high school students take the SAT test. And each year, The College Board publishes reports which are gold mines of information for statistics junkies like us. We decided to have some fun with the 2003 report (pdf), looking specifically at the average scores for groups of students headed towards different college majors. As you... Posted by ceb into Cert. & Teacher Training
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Overrepresentation of foreign-bred students in U.S. specialties January 21, 2004
Yesterday, psychometrician Kimberly Swygert gave us "The inside scoop of Harcourt Assessment." In her post, she suggested that readers note "the names of the four doctoral fellows who spent the summer at Harcourt in 2003, learning the ropes." We did, and they are Saengla Chaimongkol (Florida State University), Pei-Hua Chen (University of Texas at Austin), Shuhong Li (University of Massachusetts),... Posted by ceb into Higher Education
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