Colleges: Get Rid of the SAT at Your Own Risk
Featuring this week's guest April Bleske-Rechek
Hello Podcast Family,
If you went to college, you likely had to take the SAT or ACT standardized tests to gain admittance into the school you wanted to attend. This, in addition to sharing your academic transcripts from high school, perhaps you filled out a detailed college application, and you wrote an essay. Maybe you even sat down and interviewed of your place at the college.
Today, there is a movement to get rid of those standardized test scores, and our guest this week argues that is a big mistake.
University professor and researcher makes her case for standardized testing in college admissions at a time when there’s an aggressive movement to get rid of the tests. She co-authored an article recently in Skeptic Magazine where they say the standardized tests are not biased but are in fact more fair than other measures to gauge student potential.
April is a Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she focuses on Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology. She has written for many peer-reviewed journals, and is an active member of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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