It's much more than that.
They want to sweep under the rug this elephant in the room...
Posted on 02/03/2020 7:48:38 PM PST by karpov
The Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the SAT for The College Board, on Tuesday announced the launch of a new institute that will conduct research on creating and maintaining more equitable testing programs.
Based on the institute’s research findings and recommendations, ETS will, down the road, incorporate changes in its tests to make them fairer, by accounting for test-takers’ socioeconomic backgrounds and the attendant inequities in educational resources, said Dr. Michael Walker, director of the new Fairness and Equity Research Methodologies Institute.
Standardized tests like the SAT have for decades gotten a bad rap, with critics saying they have inbuilt biases that penalize students of color, minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.
The advent of the digital era has thrown up more challenges, with computer literacy, artificial intelligence-fueled learning models and automated grading muddying the testing landscape. But with no viable alternative developed in all these decades, standardized tests are going nowhere.
Still, the New Jersey-based ETS said it’s heeding what critics are saying and is continually trying to develop fairer and more equitable assessment models. The new institute, it said, is another step toward fairness and equity in assessment and learning.
“We have to broaden concepts of fairness and equity and we need to develop methodologies to take assessment modes into account. And if we see unfairness we will work to correct it,” said Walker.
The opening task for the institute is to understand that fairness is a multilayered concept.
“We need to paint with a broader brush to cover all nuances of fairness. That’s the first step,” said Walker. “Then, with a framework laid out, we will start investigating different corners systematically, by mapping current and previous research on the framework and looking for holes.”
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If your mom is a whore, does she bring home case or checks?
So basically.
How will they penalize whites/asians and pump up black/latino scores and still be called a “fair and impartial” test?
Why dont they use one of those things at the paint store, the darker the shade the higher the score.
I got a question for them.
How many butt shakes in the 2020 Super Bowl half time Show?
Okay, now how many pelvic thrusts?
Then free tuition for the wise ass that gets it right.
if you has to hos and they be ugly what one did you do
So they are going to be testing IQ instead of the person’s current ability to succeed in college? (Current knowledge). Seems like colleges still want to know if you are ready for college not how innately “bright” you are.
I have a saying “We can send a man to the moon but we’ve not been able to develop an academic test where blacks score as well as Whites and Asians”.
No, because the ordering of IQ scores by race is the same as for the SAT. Interesting coincidence.
Makes sense. But we are beyond making sense now...that is so 19th century!
Well, what I would say to you, is keep in mind that the ETS is perhaps one of the most ‘closed’ institutions that I can think of; which there are only few other exceptions, e.g. Rand Corp.
“More equitable” of course, means dumber.
Eliminating the ever vexing “Hoos ur datty” question” due to only four choices in the multiple guess section
LOL!
They never say how the tests are unfair to minorities.
Math is math, science is science, history is history, english is english.
The fact some demographics do not value education as much as others doesn’t make tests “unfair”.
It's much more than that.
They want to sweep under the rug this elephant in the room...
2081 isn’t that far away...
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
““More equitable” of course, means dumber.”
“Dr. Michael Walker, director of the new Fairness and Equity Research Methodologies Institute. “
Sounds a lot like the “United States Handicapper General” from this...
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
That SAT company is going to go bankrupt if standardized testing goes the way of the Dodo bird.
And yes the bell curve is real, too, but there is no unfairness in math, science and english tests.
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