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Are Workplace Personality Tests Fair?
The Wall Street Journal: Workers who apply online at RadioShack Corp. must say if they agree with the statement: “Over the course of the day, I can experience many mood changes.” Lowe’s Cos. asks job seekers if they “believe that
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Should the SAT be optional?
Quartz: Recently, several colleges and universities in the US have declared that applicants no longer need to submit their SAT or ACT scores to be considered for admission. Numerous schools have gone test optional; in fact, Bowdoin College has
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Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing
The New York Times: Imagine that on Day 1 of a difficult course, before you studied a single thing, you got hold of the final exam. The motherlode itself, full text, right there in your
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Why We’re Wrong About Affirmative Action: Stereotypes, Testing and the ‘Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations’
The Huffington Post: Earlier this month a divided Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas’ right to use race amongst its criteria for undergraduate admissions, however limited that right may be. While the decision
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Older People May Do Poorly on Cognitive Tests Partly Because They Don’t Care About the Tests
New York Magazine: Tom Hess, a University of North Carolina professor and author of a new study inPerspectives on Psychological Science, is trying to understand a strange finding: Even though older adults show declines when they are given
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How Tests Make Us Smarter
The New York Times: TESTS have a bad reputation in education circles these days: They take time, the critics say, put students under pressure and, in the case of standardized testing, crowd out other educational
