Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening preparation gap that threatens the value of UC science, technology, engineering and math degrees.
Critics call the SAT inequitable and say high school grades are a good predictor of college success.
High school grades aren’t standardized, and standardized tests are, and they’re intaking students from different high schools.
Maybe you could do something with high school grades to try to get comparable results across schools, but then you’d have to try to build some sort of predictive model to compensate for grade inflation at different schools, not to mention the added complication of people taking different classes.
High school grades aren’t standardized, and standardized tests are, and they’re intaking students from different high schools.
Maybe you could do something with high school grades to try to get comparable results across schools, but then you’d have to try to build some sort of predictive model to compensate for grade inflation at different schools, not to mention the added complication of people taking different classes.
You’d need federal level curriculum and strict teacher training and guidance