Uc faculty call to restore standardized testing
Hundreds of University of California mathematics faculty have urged bringing back standardized testing after reports showed a thirtyfold increase in incoming students with math skills below high school level. A 2019 UC standardized testing task force found test scores were better predictors of first-year GPA than high school GPA and were predictive across demographic groups, including underrepresented minority students. Despite that, former UC president Janet Napolitano moved the system to a test-blind approach until developing a new UC test. Separate UC San Diego analysis reported about 70 percent of these students perform below a middle-school level, prompting faculty to teach high-school math in college courses.
Standardized tests predicted college success better than high school GPA.
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The University of California stopped using standardized tests in admissions and went…
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