The obvious first questions: why use standardized tests? What do they actually measure? Only once you've persuaded us that they are valid tools in admissions does it make sense to have a discussion about whether to keep them at all.
Indeed. As Professor Snyder notes in the last few minutes of the podcast there are other genuine reasons to drop standardized testing. So as you'll appreciate, this episode isn't making a case for standardized testing -- rather a critique of the rhetoric being used to get rid of tests.
Right. So I suggest that the episode’s title is misleading. I also suggest that discussing the flaws in standardized testing and persuading more schools to drop them would accomplish more than critiquing Harvard et al. for the language they use when they suspend the use of these tests.
The obvious first questions: why use standardized tests? What do they actually measure? Only once you've persuaded us that they are valid tools in admissions does it make sense to have a discussion about whether to keep them at all.
Indeed. As Professor Snyder notes in the last few minutes of the podcast there are other genuine reasons to drop standardized testing. So as you'll appreciate, this episode isn't making a case for standardized testing -- rather a critique of the rhetoric being used to get rid of tests.
Right. So I suggest that the episode’s title is misleading. I also suggest that discussing the flaws in standardized testing and persuading more schools to drop them would accomplish more than critiquing Harvard et al. for the language they use when they suspend the use of these tests.