Should Testing Be Optional? – Anonna Aditia
Policy Topic: Testing in higher education. Should it be optional or is it more reasonable to have them stay?
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Lemann, Nicholas. 1999. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Jack Buckley, Lynn Letukas, & Ben Wildavsky. (2018). Measuring Success: Testing, Grades, and the Future of College Admissions. Johns Hopkins University Press.
James Elwick. (2021). Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing. University of Toronto Press.
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, Steering Committee for the Workshop on Higher Education Admissions, Robert L. Linn, M. R. C. Greenwood, & Alexandra Beatty. (1999). Myths and Tradeoffs : The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions. National Academies Press.
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