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April 17, 2007

Quick Takes: Rollins Drops Admissions Test Requirement, Scholars Win Pulitzers, 24 Community Colleges Added to ‘Achieving the Dream’

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  • Rollins College, in Florida, announced Monday that it would no longer require applicants to submit standardized test scores. “It is too easy to be distracted by low test scores that are not accurate predictors of a student’s college academic potential,” said David Erdmann, dean of admission for Rollins’s College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Scholars were among the winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes, announced on Monday. Natasha Trethewey, an associate professor of English at Emory University, won the prize for poetry, for Native Guard, a collection published by Houghton Mifflin. Debby Applegate, who has taught at Yale and Wesleyan Universities, won the prize for biography for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, published by Doubleday. Gene Roberts, a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, along with co-author Hank Klibanoff, managing editor of The Atlanta Journal Constitution, won the history prize for their book, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Achieving the Dream, a national effort to help community colleges find ways so that more of their students complete programs and/or transfer to earn bachelor’s degrees, announced Monday that it is adding 24 colleges, bringing the total number of participating colleges to 82.

— Scott Jaschik

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Three Cheers

Three Cheers for Rollins College for being brave enough to do what many of us have been wanting to do for over a decade. I have evidence at the University where I work that test scores are NOT indicative of performance at the college level. I have for decades declared that we put as much emphasis on a four hour test as we do on four years of academic work in high school. What is fair about that? Test scores are good for determining scholarship eligibility and not much else, as a predictor of college success.. .well....

Martin, at 10:55 am EDT on April 17, 2007

Placement...

Well, another purpose for admission tests at some college is the placement of students in the appropriate entry level classes. Many students today “cannot” start at college level classes and need remedial reading, English, and/or math classes. Hopefully, this does not mean that placement tests are not being used.

Steven, at 8:45 pm EDT on April 17, 2007

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