Myths and Tradeoffs The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Public, private, and parochial schools each apply their own standards, and public schools are controlled locally, not nationally. Curricula, grading standards, and course content vary enormously.
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· Test producers should intensify their efforts to make clear both in score reports and in documents intended for students, parents, counselors, admissions officers, and the public the limits to the information that scores supply. This could be done by supplementing the interpretive material currently supplied with clear descriptions and representationsaccessible to a lay audience of such points as the significance of the standard error and the fact that the score is a point on a range of possible scores; the accuracy with which a score can predict future academic performance (in terms of the probability that a student would achieve a particular grade point average, for example)
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