I usually don't read articles with "executive summaries" but this got air time on NPR this morning. On the air it sounded like we'd be better off admitting students based on just HS grades, but that conclusion may not be warranted, even using their data:
http://www.nacacnet.org/research/research-data/nacac-research/Documents/DefiningPromise.pdf The NPR story is: http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/277059528/college-applicants-sweat-the-sats-perhaps-they-shouldn-t I did a quick peek at their figures, and found (Figure 40) that, as I suspected, the combined use of grades and SAT scores predicted more variance than either alone. If you had to choose between them, their data shows grades a better predictor but that should not be surprising. I am wondering if, these days, there is a tighter relationship between HS grades and SAT scores (and general cognitive ability) at least in the US, given the tendency to teach-to-the-standardized test. I will never forget my shock when I saw some of my children's homework that looked liked IQ items, of absolutely no use to anyone or anything other than general-cognitive etcetera etcetera etcetera ========================== John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34339 or send a blank email to leave-34339-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
