Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century

, by Camara, Wayne J.; Kimmel, Ernest W.; Willingham, Warren W.; Julian, Ellen

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ISBN: 9780805847529 | 0805847529
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Copyright: 2/17/2005

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This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can--or should--choose students during the early part of the 21st century. The volume is particularly timely because the question of how changes in adm

Preface

vii

Part I: Diversity in Higher Education

Competition in Higher Education and Admissions Testing

(10)

Lee C. Bollinger

What Is It We Think We Are Trying to Fix and How Should We Fix It? A View From the Admissions Office

(20)

Robert Laird

Who Is at the Door? The Demography of Higher Education in the 21st Century

(20)

Ernest W. Kimmel

Broadening Criteria of College Success and the Impact of Cognitive Predictors

(28)

Wayne J. Camara

Broadening Predictors of College Success

(28)

Wayne J. Camara

Part II: Improving Current Practice

The Performance--Diversity Tradeoff in Admission Testing

109

(18)

Paul R. Sackett

Prospects for Improving Grades for Use in Admissions

127

(14)

Warren W. Willingham

Evaluating College Applicants: Some Alternatives

141

(18)

Robert L. Linn

Part III: New Constructs and New Measures

Augmenting the SAT Through Assessments of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Skills

159

(18)

Robert J. Sternberg

The Case for Noncognitive Measures

177

(18)

William E. Sedlacek

Broadening the Performance Domain in the Prediction of Academic Success

195

(20)

Neal Schmitt

Frederick L. Oswald

Michael A. Gillespie

Assessing the Personal Characteristics of Premedical Students

215

(16)

Patricia M. Etienne

Ellen R. Julian

Access and Diversity in Law School Admissions

231

(20)

Peter J. Pashley

Andrea E. Thornton

Jennifer R. Duffy

Toward a Science of Assessment

251

(22)

Isaac I. Bejar

Part IV: Admission in the Context of K--16 Reform Efforts

The Integration of Secondary and Postsecondary Assessment Systems: Cautionary Concerns

273

(12)

Stanley Rabinowitz

Rethinking Admission and Placement in an Era of New K--12 Standards

285

(28)

Michael W. Kirst

Proficiency-Based Admissions

313

(18)

David T. Conley

Author Index

331

(12)

Subject Index

343

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Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century

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