On The Use of Background and Ability Profiles to Predict College Student Outcomes and other papers…
I wrote yesterday about an upcoming paper from MSU researchers about prediction of future academic success from current measured background characteristics. Realizing that I could, I requested a prepublication copy of the paper. Fewer than five hours later, at [...]

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Courtesy my deal-trawling over at SlickDeals.net I’ve turned this up for anyone reading. The College Board offers an online SAT course which normally costs 69$ dollars, a terrible value, I’d say.
This is College Board’s OFFICIAL SAT Online course. Which includes…
* Interactive instruction organized into 18 lessons
* Personalized score reports
* 6 official practice tests [...]

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Through “a series of multiple-choice questions,” researchers plan to predict how students will succeed (or not succeed) in college. What test could I be talking about: the SAT, the ACT, the AP, IB, or maybe even the TOEFL? No, it’s some new test–so new it doesn’t have a dehumanizing acronym applied to it yet! Better [...]

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Providence College, in an effort to bridge a “Student accessibility gap” (read: increase its applicant pool) has implemented a new initiative whereby they will no longer require undergraduate applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of the admission application. (emphasis mine)

http://www.providence.edu/Admission/Undergraduate/Test+…
The new “test-optional” policy is effective immediately for students applying for admission [...]

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College admissions officers in Massachusetts and elsewhere yesterday scrambled to deal with the applications of thousands of students whose SAT scores were too low because of a technical glitch, one of the biggest mistakes ever made on the high-stakes exam.

Ooops! Someone messed up. Ostensibly, a computer, but really there’s a human behind it in the [...]

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