INFLUENTIAL RESOURCES
Resources valuable to our filmmaking process
Title | Author | Year | City | Publisher |
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Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing (Our Compelling Interests) | Lemann, Nicholas | 2024 September | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University Press |
Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management - How a Powerful Industry is Limiting Social Mobility in American Higher Education | Burd, Stephen J. | 2024 May | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Harvard Education Press |
College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change | Geisinger, Kurt F. | 2023 | New York, NY | Routledge |
The Golden Ticket – A Life in College Admissions Essays | Smith, Irena | 2023 | Phoenix, AZ | She Writes Press |
An Age of Accountability - How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education | Rury, John L. | 2023 | New Brunswick, New Jersey | Rutgers University Press |
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream | Bunch, Will | 2022 | New York, NY | William Morrow |
Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It | Diver, Colin | 2022 | Baltimore | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us | Mandery, Evan | 2022 | New York, NY | The New Press |
Can College Level the Playing Field? | Baum, Sandy, & McPherson, Michael | 2022 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University Press |
Rethinking College Admissions - Research-Based Practice and Policy | OiYan A. Poon and Michael N. Bastedo (Editors) | 2022 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard Education Press |
Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education | LeBlanc, Paul | 2021 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard Education Press |
Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal | Laporte, Nicole | 2021 | New York | Twelve / Hatchet Books |
What Universities Owe Democracy | Daniels, Ronald | 2021 | Baltimore | Johns Hopkins University Press |
An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy | Xu, Kenny | 2021 | New York | Diversion Books |
The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT and ACT | Soares, Joseph A. | 2020 | New York, NY | Teacher's College Press |
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions | Selingo, Jeffrey | 2020 | New York, NY | Scribner |
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? | Sandel, Michael J. | 2020 | New York, NY | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students | Jack, Anthony Abraham | 2020 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard University Press |
The Merit Myth - How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America | Carnevale, Anthony P., Schmidt, Peter & Strohl, Jeff | 2020 | New York, NY | The New Press |
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal | Korn, Melissa & Levitz, Jennifer | 2020 | New York | Portfolio / Penguin |
Opting Out: The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools | Hursh, David; Deutermann, Jeanette; Rudley, Lisa & Chen, Zhe | 2020 | Gorham, ME | Myers Education Press |
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us | Tough, Paul | 2019 | Boston, MA | Mariner Books |
Measuring Success: Testing, Grades, and the Future of College Admissions | Buckley, Jack; Letukas, Lynn & Wildavsky, Ben (eds.) | 2018 | Baltimore, MD | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education | Dixon-Román, Ezekiel J | 2017 | Minneapolis, MN | University of Minnesota Press |
All the Wisdom and None of the Junk: Secrets of Applying for College Admission and Scholarships | Craig, Katy & Kramer, Katie | 2017 | Seattle, WA | CreateSpace Independent Publishing |
The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better | Koretz, Daniel | 2017 | Chicago, Ill. | University of Chicago Press |
Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality | Schneider, Jack | 2017 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard University Press |
The Death and ,Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (3rd edition) | Ravitch, Diane | 2016 | New York, NY | Basic Books |
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America | Guinier, Lani | 2015 | Boston, MA | Beacon Press |
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania | Bruni, Frank | 2015 | New York, NY | Grand Central Publishing |
The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be | Kamenetz, Anya | 2015 | New York, NY | PublicAffairs |
The Better College Essay | Stone, Elizabeth | 2014 | Westford, MA | Wintergreen Orchard House |
The Perfect Score Project: One Mother's Journey to Uncover the Secrets of the SAT | Stier, Debbie | 2014 | New York, NY | Harmony Books |
Henry Chauncey: An American Life | Elliot, Norbet | 2014 | New York, NY | Peter Lang Publishing |
Excellent Sheep: the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life | Deresiewicz, William | 2014 | New York, NY | Free Press |
SAT Wars: the Case for Test-Optional Admissions | Soares, Joseph A | 2012 | New York, NY | Teachers College Press |
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 | Murray, Charles | 2012 | New York, NY | Crown Forum |
College Admission : From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step | Mamlet, Robin | 2011 | New York, NY | Random House |
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences | Gardner, Howard | 2011 | New York, NY | Basic Books; 3rd edition |
Getting In: The Zinch Guide to College Admissions & Financial Aid in the Digital Age | Cohen, Steve; Dwane, Anne; de Oliveira, Paulo; and Muska, Michael | 2011 | Hoboken, NJ | Wiley Publishing |
The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do | Harris, Phillip; Smith, Bruce M.; and Harris, Joan | 2011 | Lanham, MD | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment | Popham, James W | 2011 | Thousand Oaks, CA | Corwin |
How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) | Newport, Cal | 2010 | New York, NY | Three Rivers Press |
Human Intelligence | Hunt, Earl | 2010 | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge University Press |
Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College | Kahlenberg, Richard (Ed.) | 2010 | New York, NY | Century Foundation Books |
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life | Espenshade, Thomas J. and Radford, Alexandria Walton | 2009 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University Press |
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities | Bowen, William; Chingos, Matthew M. & McPherson, Michael S | 2009 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University Press |
Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry | Farley, Todd | 2009 | Oakland, CA | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
A Is for Admission: The Insider’s Gide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges (Revised ed.) | Hernandez, Michele A | 2009 | New York, NY | Grand Central Publishing |
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality | Murray, Charles | 2008 | New York, NY | Crown Forum |
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us | Koretz, Daniel | 2008 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard University Press |
The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson | Atkinson, Richard C. & Pelfrey, Patricia A | 2007 | Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA | University of California Press |
The Power of Privilege: Yale and America’s Elite Colleges | Soares, Joseph A | 2007 | Stanford, CA | Stanford University Press |
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates | Golden, Daniel | 2006 | New York, NY | Crown Publishing |
College Unranked: ending the college admissions frenzy | Thacker, Lloyd | 2005 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard University Press |
The Chosen: the Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton | Karabel, Jerome | 2005 | Boston, MA | Houghton Mifflin |
On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America | Elliot, Norbert | 2005 | New York, NY | Peter Lang |
Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century | Camara, Wayne & Kimmel, Ernest W | 2005 | Mahwah, NJ | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
Beyond the Big Test: Noncognitive Assessment in Higher Education | Sedlacek, William | 2004 | San Francisco, CA | John Wiley & Sons |
Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions | Zwick, Rebecca (Ed.) | 2004 | New York, NY | RoutledgeFalmer |
Kill the Messenger | Phelps, Richard | 2003 | New Brunswick, NJ | Transaction Publishers |
The Gatekeepers: inside the admissions process of a premier college | Steinberg, Jacques | 2002 | New York, NY | Viking |
Fair Game?: the Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education | Zwick, Rebecca | 2002 | New York, NY | RoutledgeFalmer |
The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action | Popham, James W | 2001 | Alexandria, VA | Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools | Kohn, Alfie (author) and Bridges, Lois (ed.) | 2000 | Portsmouth, NH | Heinemann |
Standardized Minds: the High Price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it | Sacks, Peter | 1999 | Cambridge, MA | Perseus Books |
None of the Above: the truth behind the SATs | Owen, David & Doerr, Marilyn | 1999 | Lanham, MD | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
The Big Test: the Secret History of the American meritocracy | Lemann, Nicholas | 1999 | New York, NY | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
The College Admissions Mystique | Mayher, Bill | 1998 | New York, NY | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
The Shape of the River: long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions | Bowen, William G., and Bok, Derek Curtis | 1998 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University Press |
The Mismeasure of Man | Gould, Stephen J | 1996 | New York, MY | Norton |
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life | Herrnstein, Richard & Murray, Charles | 1994 | New York, NY | Free Press |
Tyranny of Testing | Hoffmann, Banesh | 1978 | Westport, CT | Greenwood Press |
The College Board; its first fifty years | Fuess, Claude M | 1950 | New York, NY | Columbia University Press |
A Study of Error | Brigham, Carl C | 1932 | New York, NY | The College Entrance Examination Board |
Resources valuable to our filmmaking process
Title | Author | Year | Pages | Source | Article Link |
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Record-High Percentage of Graduates Participate in 2024 ACT School-Day Testing ACT, Inc. | 2024, October 16 | ACT, Inc. | LINK | ||
Hot Takes from ACT on Test-optional | Boeckenstedt, Jon | 2016, October 5 | Admitting Things | LINK | |
SAT Problem, Solved | Boeckenstedt, Jon | 2024, June 12 | Admitting Things | LINK | |
Surprise: College Board and ACT don’t like Test-optional admissions | Boeckenstedt, Jon | 2017, September 22 | Admitting Things | LINK | |
Some final thoughts on the SAT and ACT | Boeckenstedt, Jon | 2020, January 10 | Admitting Things | LINK | |
The Myths of GPA in College Admissions Explained | Bello, Akil | 2025, June 8 | akilbello.com | LINK | |
Abolish the SAT | Murray, Charles | 2007, July 13 | American Enterprise Institute | LINK | |
SAT and ACT Cheating Scandals Will Hasten Arrival of Digital Testing | Applerouth, Jed | 2016, September 8 | Applerouth | LINK | |
Prep Smarter: How to Make the Most of SAT/ACT Preparation | Applerouth, Jed | 2017, May 8 | Applerouth | LINK | |
Sweeping Changes to SAT and ACT Accommodations | Applerouth, Jed | 2016, December 15 | Applerouth | LINK | |
ACT Loses Ground to Redesigned SAT | Applerouth, Jed | 2017, September 13 | Applerouth | LINK | |
New Mexico adopts SAT as requirement for high school juniors | 2019, October 18 | Associated Press | LINK | ||
ACT Test Scores For Us Students Drop To New 30-Year Low | Mumphrey, Cheyanne | 2023, October 11 | Associated Press | LINK | |
Johns Hopkins University reinstates ACT or SAT requirement for undergraduate admission | Hacker, Kiersten | 2024, August 22 | Baltimore Sun | LINK | |
During test-optional college admissions, exam-prep companies still thrived | Becker, Sam | 2024, April 17 | BBC | LINK | |
Elite Colleges Are Trying to Navigate a World Where the SATs Are Optional | Francesca Maglione | 2022, December 7 | Bloomberg | LINK | |
The SAT’s Return Has Frantic Parents Hiring $500-an-Hour Tutors | Cattan, Nacha | 2024, March 19 | Bloomberg | LINK | |
SAT subject tests lose favor for colleges | Krantz, Laura | 2016, August 22 | Boston Globe | LINK | |
Goodbye ACT, hello SAT: a significant change for Colorado high schoolers | Gorski, Eric | 2015, December 23 | Chalkbeat | LINK | |
Oh what a tangled web schools weave: The college rankings game | Morson, Gary Saul & Shapiro, Morton | 2017, August 27 | Chicago Tribune | LINK | |
Illinois shifts gears on college entrance exams, chooses SAT over ACT | Rado, Diane | 2015 December 21 | Chicago Tribune | LINK | |
What Keeps Women Out of Elite Colleges? Their SAT Scores | Hoover, Eric | 2014, October 2 | Chronicle of Higher Education | LINK | |
Why some families will pay $500,000 for Ivy League admissions consulting: ‘It’s worth the investment’ | Dickler, Jessica | 2024, October 18 | CNBC | LINK | |
Here's what happened when these colleges ditched SAT scores | Lobosco, Katie | 2015, September 8 | CNN Money | LINK | |
College Board Partners with AIR Assessment to Expand Digital SAT Testing | 2017, August 15 | College Board | LINK | ||
Columbia is Test-Optional | 2023, March 1 | Columbia University | LINK | ||
Ohio schools must now give ACT or SAT to all juniors | Gilchrist, Shannon | 2017, February 28 | Columbus Dispatch | LINK | |
Cornell to reinstate standardized test requirements for fall 2026 | Dean, James | 2024, April 22 | Cornell Chronicle | LINK | |
The biggest lie in college admissions | Meltzer, Erica | 2017, Oct 30 | Critical Reader | LINK | |
Michigan to dump ACT for SAT as high school requirement | Higgins, Lori | 2015, January 7 | Detroit Free Press | LINK | |
Less than half of all students fully college-ready on revised SAT test | Gordon, Larry | 2017, September 26 | EdSource | LINK | |
College Board's Statewide SAT Contracts Reaching Twice as Many Students | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, September 27 | Education Week | LINK | |
Don’t Use SAT and ACT as Your High School Tests, Study Urges | Gewertz, Catherine | 2018, March 13 | Education Week | LINK | |
Grades and Standardized Test Scores Aren’t Matching Up. Here’s Why | Najarro, Ileana | 2024, October 4 | Education Week | LINK | |
Barely Half of Colleges Validate Use of SAT, ACT as Success Predictors | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, June 15 | Education Week | LINK | |
Dwindling Interest Seen in SAT Subject Tests | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, August 23 | Education Week | LINK | |
Former College Board SAT Designer Drawn Into FBI Probe | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, September 13 | Education Week | LINK | |
SAT Results 2016: It's Complicated | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, September 27 | Education Week | LINK | |
National Testing Landscape Continues to Shift | Gewertz, Catherine | 2017, February 15 | Education Week | LINK | |
New SAT Yields Higher Scores, But Don't Be Fooled | Gewertz, Catherine | 2017, September 26 | Education Week | LINK | |
The SAT Is Making a Comeback. Here’s a Look at the Numbers and What They Tell Us | Najarro, Ileana | 2023, October 25 | Education Week | LINK | |
Colorado Chooses SAT Over PARCC as High School Test | Gewertz, Catherine | 2015 December 24 | Education Week | LINK | |
College Board Attacks New ACT Prep Service | Gewertz, Catherine | 2016, April 26 | Education Week | LINK | |
NACAC Panels Emphasize the Benefits of Test Optional/Free Policies | Bello, Akil | 2024, October 30 | FairTest | LINK | |
Big Changes Are Coming To The ACT Test. Should Students Take It? | White, Scott | 2024 July 18 | Forbes | LINK | |
How the SAT Failed America | Adams, Susan | 2020, September 30 | Forbes | LINK | |
Nicholas Lemann’s New Book Makes The Case For Moving Past The SAT | Nietzel, Michael | 2024 September 2 | Forbes | LINK | |
Dropping SAT Won’t Diminish College Board Clout | Paterno, Susan | 2021, May 21 | Forbes | LINK | |
The Testing Predators Have Beaten ACT And The College Board | Akil Bello | 2022, June 27 | Forbes | LINK | |
When Colleges Go Test-Optional, Who Benefits? | Edmonds, Dan | 2015, July 30 | Forbes | LINK | |
The Invisible Force Behind College Admissions | McGrath, Maggie | 2014, August 18 | Forbes | LINK | |
Latest Private Equity Trophy: ACT Test for College Admissions | Whitford, Emma | 2024, April 10 | Forbes | LINK | |
Should High School Juniors Stop Worrying about the SAT and ACT? | Greene, Peter | 2024, November 21 | Forbes | LINK | |
The Three Biggest Lies in College Admissions | Cohen, Steve | 2012, September 29 | Forbes | LINK | |
A Computer Can Now Write Your College Essay — Maybe Better Than You Can | Whitford, Emma | 2022, December 9 | Forbes | LINK | |
Will Trump DOE Try to End Test-Optional Admission Policies? | Nietzel, Michael | 2025, February 18 | Forbes | LINK | |
How the Explosion of Private Consultants Has Changed the College Admissions Landscape | Rim, Christopher | 2025, May 2 | Forbes | LINK | |
Is the College Board Truly a Non-Profit Or a $1.6 Billion Testing Monopoly? | White, Scott | 2025, May 26 | Forbes | LINK | |
Search Cliff: How The Digital PSAT And SAT Will Cripple Student Recruitment | Bhaskara, Vinay | 2024, May 8 | Forbes | LINK | |
ACT Score Decline: Lost Learners Not Learning Loss | Akil Bello | 2022, October 17 | Forbes | LINK | |
Data Looks at Whether All Students Should Take the SAT | Samida, Nami | 2024, August 20 | Government Technology | LINK | |
The Last Days of ETS – pdf | Owen, David | 1983, May | 21-37 | Harper's | LINK |
Beyond the SAT - Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs | Lemann, Nicholas | 2024 September | Harvard Magazine | LINK | |
Caught cheating: Colleges falsify admissions data for higher rankings | Marcus, Jon | 2013, Mar 20 | Hechinger Report | LINK | |
The real reason that colleges go ‘test-optional’ | Burd, Stephen | 2015, August 26 | Hechinger Report | LINK | |
Why the new SAT is not the answer | Bello, Akil & Murphy, James S | 2016, March 4 | Hechinger Report | LINK | |
How colleges can navigate a shifting test-optional landscape | Spitalniak, Laura | 2024, October 2 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
U.S. News rankings don’t ding colleges for lacking SAT and ACT data in nod to test-optional growth | Laura Spitalniak | 2022, September 12 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
Number of college applicants sending admissions scores hasn’t rebounded | Jeremy Bauer-Wolf | 2022, November 21 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
NCAA permanently ends SAT, ACT eligibility requirement for Division I, II student-athletes | Bauer-Wolf, Jeremy | 2023, February 7 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
College applicants still aren’t submitting SAT, ACT scores at pre-pandemic levels | Bauer-Wolf, Jeremy | 2023, March 30 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
Florida university system approves classical admissions test, an SAT and ACT alternative | Bauer-Wolf, Jeremy | 2023, September 8 | Higher Ed Dive | LINK | |
Is Admissions Trump’s Next Higher Ed Target? | Knox, Liam | 2025, April 14 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Discord on Test Scores | Jaschik, Scott | 2016, May 16 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Faulty Predictions? New study suggests the SAT may over- or underpredict first-year college grades of hundreds of thousands of students | Jaschik, Scott | 2016, January 26 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Why MIT was right to reinstate the SAT (opinion) | Les Perelman | 2022, May 9 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
The SAT Enters the 21st Century | Knox, Liam | 2024, March 5 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Introducing a Shorter, ‘More Flexible’ ACT | Knox, Liam | 2024 July 22 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
The Misguided War on Test Optional | Bello, Akil | 2024, February 5 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Should We Be Worried About High School Grade Inflation? | Murphy, James S. | 2017, September 15 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Layoffs and ‘Transformation’ at a Testing Titan | Knox, Liam | 2023, September 29 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
What the Supreme Court Rejection of Affirmative Action Means | Jaschik, Scott | 2023 June 29 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
SATs Have Never Been About Equity | Stetler, Pepper | 2024 August 19 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Report Calls for Merit Scholarships Not to Be Awarded Based on SAT or ACT | Jaschik, Scott | 2023 June 26 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Making the Case for Test Optional | Jaschik, Scott | 2018, April 27 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
How the SAT Shaped College Admissions [Nicholas Lemann interviewed] | Knox, Liam | 2024 September 16 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Massive Admissions Scandal | Jaschik, Scott | 2019, March 13 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Coronavirus Drives Colleges to Test Optional | Jaschik, Scott | 2020, March 30 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Test Optional Admissions Works – Are You Considering Test Optional Admissions? | Eric Maguire | 2022, August 29 | Inside Higher Ed | LINK | |
Test Optional — or Maybe Not. | Stone, Elizabeth | 2016/17, December/January | 3-6 | Insights | LINK |
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions | Hess, Frederick M. | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal | LINK | ||
The SAT’s Trust Fall | Torres, Michael | 2025, June 18 | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal | LINK | |
CSU officially drops SAT and ACT from admissions process in major move | Shalby, Colleen & Watanabe, Teresa | 2022, March 23 | Los Angeles Times | LINK | |
UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission | Watanabe, Teresa | 2020, May 21 | Los Angeles Times | LINK | |
Beyond Varsity Blues: In pursuit of donations, USC admitted affluent kids as walk-on athletes | Hamilton, Matt and Ryan, Harriet | 2024, October 22 | Los Angeles Times | LINK | |
Varsity Gray: A Times investigation into what really happened in the college admissions scandal | Hamilton, Matt and Ryan, Harriet | 2024, December 27 | Los Angeles Times | LINK | |
UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative | Watanabe, Teresa | 2021, November 18 | Los Angeles Times | LINK | |
Watering Down the SAT Weakens Meritocracy | Westh Blanc, Vilda & Rosenberger, Tim | 2025 June 30 | National Review | LINK | |
Ohio State to require applicants’ ACT/SAT scores, ending pandemic-era policy | Millard, Katie | 2025, March 14 | NBC4i.com | LINK | |
Inside the vast national experiment in test-optional college admissions | Erin Einhorn | 2022, April 10 | NBC News | LINK | |
The SAT’s Not-Quite-Comeback | Burd, Stephen | 2024 November 18 | New America | LINK | |
The Trouble With Harvard | Pinker, Steven | 2014, September 4 | New Republic | LINK | |
Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League | Deresiewicz, William | 2014, July 21 | New Republic | LINK | |
Tests of Hereditary Intelligence | Lippmann, Walter | 1922, November 22 | New Republic (Google Books version.) | LINK | |
There’s a Crazy New Wrinkle to Choosing a College: A last-minute round of deal-making from schools eager to boost enrollment | Selingo, Jeffrey | 2025, May 23 | New York Magazine | LINK | |
What Does an SAT Score Mean Anymore? | Jeffrey Selingo | 2022, November 2 | New York Magazine | LINK | |
Inside the Craziest College-Admissions Season Ever | Selingo, Jeffrey | 2024, March 20 | New York Magazine | LINK | |
The Secrecy Behind the College Boards | Brill, Steven | 1974, Oct 7 | New York Magazine (Google Books version.) | LINK | |
Colleges Know How Much You’re Willing to Pay. Here’s How. | Lieber, Ron | 2025, May 1 | New York Times | LINK | |
Colleges To Try 'Intelligence' Tests; Entrance Examination Board to Offer Psychological Quizzes for the First Time | 1925, November 11 | New York Times | LINK | ||
Yale Seeks Relief from Student Rush | 1926, April 18 | New York Times | LINK | ||
Yale Will Try Out An 'Aptitude Test'; University Adopts New Plan to Judge of the Fitness of Entering Students | 1927, February 4 | New York Times | LINK | ||
Plan Announced at Yale [Harvard, Yale and Princeton mandate the SAT for all applicants] | 1941, Dec 17 | 28 | New York Times | LINK | |
Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 | Aisch, Gregor; Buchanan, Larry; Cox, Amanda; and Quealy, Kevin | 2017, January 18 | New York Times | LINK | |
The Big Problem With the New SAT | Atkinson, Richard C. and Geiser, Saul | 2015 May 4 | New York Times | LINK | |
The Story Behind the SAT Overhaul | Balf, Todd | 2014, March 6 | New York Times | LINK | |
CONANT CRITICIZES ENTRANCE EXAMS; Says Colleges Should Rely More on School Records | Currivan, Gene | 1967, November 13 | 50 | New York Times | LINK |
How Businesses Use Your SATs | Dewan, Shaila | 2016, March 29 | New York Times | LINK | |
What Colleges Want in an Applicant (Everything) | Hoover, Eric | 2017, November 1 | New York Times | LINK | |
A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork | Lewin, Tamar | 2014, March 5 | New York Times | LINK | |
Behind the Cover Story: Todd Balf on the Coming Changes to the SAT | Nolan, Rachel | 2014, March 10 | New York Times | LINK | |
Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math | Pennington, Bill | 2011, December 24 | New York Times | LINK | |
A Rare Glimpse Inside the Ivy League’s Academic Index | Pennington, Bill | 2012, January 10 | New York Times | LINK | |
After SAT Misprint, Two Sections Won’t Be Scored | Rich, Motoko | 2015, June 15 | New York Times | LINK | |
The Test-Optional Surge | Simon, Cecilia Capuzzi | 2015, October 28 | New York Times | LINK | |
Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification | Bhatia, Aatish; Cain Miller, Claire and Josh Katz | 2023, July 24 | New York Times | LINK | |
New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education Miller | Miller, Claire Cain | 2023, October 23 | New York Times | LINK | |
University of California Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores | McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Giulia | 2021, May 15 | New York Times | LINK | |
Retooling During Pandemic, the SAT Will Drop Essay and Subject Tests | Hartocollis, Anemona; Taylor, Kate and Saul, Stephanie | 2021, January 19 | New York Times | LINK | |
Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud | Medina, Jennifer; Benner, Katie; and Taylor, Kate | 2019, March 12 | New York Times | LINK | |
M.I.T. Will Again Require SAT and ACT Scores | Cramer, Maria & Medina, Eduardo | 2022, March 28 | New York Times | LINK | |
The SATs Will Be Different Next Year, and That Could Be a Game-Changer | Grant, Adam | 2023, September 20 | New York Times | LINK | |
U.S. News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges | Blinder, Alan | 2024, January 6 | New York Times | LINK | |
The Misguided War on the SAT | Leonhardt, David | 2024, January 7 | New York Times | LINK | |
A Top College Reinstates the SAT | Leonhardt, David | 2024, February 5 | New York Times | LINK | |
U. of Texas at Austin Will Return to Standardized Test Requirement | Saul, Stephanie | 2024, March 11 | New York Times | LINK | |
Harvard and Caltech Will Require Test Scores for Admission | Hartocolis, Anemona, and Saul, Stephanie | 2024, April 11 | New York Times | LINK | |
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity Currell, Daniel | Currell, Daniel | 2024, May 1 | New York Times | LINK | |
Stanford Becomes Latest School to Reinstate Test Scores Requirement | Knight, Heather | 2024, June 8 | New York Times | LINK | |
The College Boards Fail the Test | Hoffman, Banesh | 1965, Oct 24 | 52 | New York Times Section MAGAZINE | LINK |
Freebies for the Rich | Rampell, Catherine | 2013, September 24. In print 2013, September 29, on Page MM14 of the Sunday Magazine | New York Times Sunday Magazine | LINK | |
Who Gets to Graduate? | Tough, Paul | 2014, May 15. In print 2014, May 18, on page MM26 of the Sunday Magazine | New York Times Sunday Magazine | LINK | |
Do ACT and SAT scores really matter? New study says they shouldn’t | Sheffer, Sarah | 2014, Feb 18 | PBS News Hour | LINK | |
Penn will reinstate its standardized test requirement for admission after a four-year pause | Gralish, Tom | 2025, February 14 | Philadelphia Inquirer | LINK | |
Why Won’t Elite Colleges Deploy the One Race-Neutral Way to Achieve Diversity? | Novicoff, Mark | 2023, September 15 | Politico | LINK | |
How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus | Wermund, Benjamin | 2017, September 10 | Politico | LINK | |
A Year with the Digital SAT: What did we learn? | Golumbfskie, Aaron | 2025 June 19 | Prep Matters | LINK | |
ACT Scores Are Down. Grades Are Up. Something's Fishy. | Camp, Emma | 2024, October 7 | Reason | LINK | |
Exclusive: ACT cancels test scores in Asia after leak of essay question | Stecklow, Steve | 2016, November 3 | Reuters | LINK | |
How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S colleges | Qing, Koh Gui; Harney, Alexandra; Stecklow, Steve; and Pomfret, James | 2016, May 25 | Reuters | LINK | |
How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT | Dudley, Renee; Stecklow, Steve; Harney, Alexandra; and Liu, Irene Jay | 2016, March 28 | Reuters | LINK | |
As SAT was hit by security breaches, College Board went ahead with tests that had leaked | Dudley, Renee; Stecklow, Steve; Harney, Alexandra; and Liu, Irene Jay | 2016, March 28 | Reuters | LINK | |
College Board chief promises changes to SAT test amid controversies | Dudley, Renee and Stecklow, Steve | 2016, September 23 | Reuters | LINK | |
Exclusive: FBI raids home of ex-College Board official in probe of SAT leak | Dudley, Renee and Shiffman, John | 2016, August 26 | Reuters | LINK | |
Despite warnings, College Board redesigned SAT in way that may hurt neediest students | Dudley, Renee | 2016, September 21 | Reuters | LINK | |
Amid problems, specialists wonder who's overseeing group that owns SAT | Dudley, Renee | 2017, February 14 | Reuters | LINK | |
College Board faces rocky path after CEO pushes new vision for SAT | Dudley, Renee | 2016, December 12 | Reuters | LINK | |
A REUTERS SERIES: Inside the business of standardized testing and college admissions — Cheat Sheet | Reuters | LINK | |||
'Massive' breach exposes hundreds of questions for upcoming SAT exams | Dudley, Renee | 2016, August 3 | Reuters | LINK | |
Exclusive: ACT partners with test-prep firms despite signs of cheating in Asia | Stecklow, Steve; Harney, Alexandra; and Park, Ju-min | 2016, September 7 | Reuters | LINK | |
Students and teachers detail pervasive cheating in a program owned by test giant ACT | Stecklow, Steve; Harney, Alexandra; and Park, Ju-min | 2016, July 25 | Reuters | LINK | |
How top U.S. colleges hooked up with controversial Chinese companies | Stecklow, Steve and Harney, Alexandra | 2016, December 2 | Reuters | LINK | |
Exclusive: ACT shakes up security unit, plans audit after cheating reports | Stecklow, Steve and Harney, Alexandra | 2016, August 10 | Reuters | LINK | |
How a Chinese company bought access to admissions officers at top U.S. colleges | Stecklow, Steve; Dudley, Renee; Pomfret, James; and Harney, Alexandra | 2016, October 14 | Reuters | LINK | |
Exclusive: U.S. students given SATs that were online before exam | Stecklow, Steve; Dudley, Renee; Harney, Alexandra | 2016, April 20 | Reuters | LINK | |
College Board tightens SAT exam security, but key risk remains | Stecklow, Steve and Dudley, Renee | 2017, February 22 | Reuters | LINK | |
Exclusive: U.S. standards council to investigate New Oriental after Reuters report | Stecklow, Steve | 2016, December 2 | Reuters | LINK | |
UC settles student lawsuit, agrees not to use SAT, ACT scores in admissions | Asimov, Nanette | 2021, May 14 | San Francisco Chronicle | LINK | |
California teens forced to travel hundreds of miles to take the SAT | Medina, Madilinne | 2024, June 7 | SF Gate | LINK | |
The Sooner We Start Thinking of the College Board as a Business, the Better | Boeckenstedt, Jon | Slate | LINK | ||
Has the Pandemic Put an End to the SAT and ACT? | Dance, Amber | 2021, July 15 | Smithsonian Magazine | LINK | |
The Single Biggest Fix for Inequality at Elite Colleges | Deming, David | 2023, December 5 | The Atlantic | LINK | |
The SAT: A New Core Subject in Schools? | Murphy, James S | 2015, June | The Atlantic | LINK | |
How Hard Is the New SAT? | Murphy, James S | 2016, May | The Atlantic | LINK | |
The Race-Blind College-Admissions Era Is Off to a Weird Start | Horowitch, Rose | 2025, February 6 | The Atlantic | LINK | |
The College-Admissions Merit Myth | Adam Harris | 2022, October 31 | The Atlantic | LINK | |
The Structure of Success in America | Lemann, Nicholas | 1995, August | pages 41-60 | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 276, No.2 | LINK |
The Great Sorting | Lemann, Nicholas | 1995, September | pages 84-100 | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 276, No.3 | LINK |
The College Board’s Monopoly on Education | Canny, Roan | 2025 June 28 | The Black and The White | LINK | |
New research backs standardized tests as predictor of ‘college success—without bias’ | Boyer, Lauren | 2025 April 8 | The College Fix | LINK | |
After ‘Varsity Blues’ scandal, lots of talk about overhauling college admissions. Will there be action? | Willen, Liz | 2020, February 4 | The Hechinger Report | LINK | |
Your A student is average — don’t blame the SAT and ACT | Blobaum, David | 2024, October 26 | The Hill | LINK | |
In college admissions, ‘test-optional’ is the new normal | Daniel de Visé | 2022, December 2 | The Hill | LINK | |
Bay Area students struggle to find SAT slots as schools reverse test-optional policies | Gibbs, Molly and Mukherjee, Shomik | 2024 July 18 | The Mercury News | LINK | |
Why Are Some Students Traveling Hundreds of Miles to Take the SAT? | Chiang, Jeannine | 2024, September 26 | The Nation | LINK | |
How the Pandemic remade the SAT | Eren Orbey | 2022, May 24 | The New Yorker | LINK | |
Re-ACT: State’s [Illinois] return to ACT is ‘disappointing' | Engles, Zoe | 2024 August 11 | The Record | LINK | |
The admissions guru who gets the children of billionaires into college for $750,000 | Coen, Susie | 2025, March 30 | The Telegraph | LINK | |
Education: Cure for Chaos | 1950, November 6 | TIME | LINK | ||
Reinstating the SATs Will Only Make Rich Kids Richer | Mandery, Evan | 2024, April 18 | TIME Magazine | LINK | |
A Year After the College Admissions Scandal, Here's What Has (and Has Not) Changed | Reilly, Katie | 2020, March 12 | TIME Magazine | LINK | |
How the SATs lost their grip on college admissions | Carey, Kevin | 2023, May 2 | Vox | LINK | |
More Students Are Taking Optional SAT and ACT, Hoping to Stand Out | Isabel Sarraf | 2022, July 1 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Bravin, Jess | 2023 June 29 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
Colorado College Withdraws From U.S. News & World Report Undergrad Ranking | Korn, Melissa | 2023, February 27 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Race in College Admissions | Jess Bravin & Melissa Korn | 2022, October 31 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
Colleges Weigh New Admissions Strategies | Melissa Korn | 2022, August 9 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
SAT Changes Will Make Exam Shorter, Simpler and Digital | Belkin, Douglas | 2022, Jan 25 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
For Sale: SAT-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity | Belkin, Douglas | 2019, November 5 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
Cheat Sheets: Colleges Inflate SATs and Graduation Rates in Popular Guidebooks Schools Say They Must Fib to U.S. News and Others to Compete Effectively. Moody's Requires the Truth | Stecklow, Steve | 1995, April 5 | Wall Street Journal | LINK | |
More than 80% of US colleges cling to test-optional admissions despite COVID-19 receding | Poff, Jeremiah | 2023, February 12 | Washington Examiner | LINK | |
Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opional push grows | Anderson, Nick | 2021, December 16 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Why getting into elite colleges is harder for women | Birger, Jon | 2015, July 30 | Washington Post | LINK | |
A shake-up in elite admissions: U-Chicago drops SAT/ACT testing requirement | Anderson, Nick | 2018, June 14 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Dartmouth will require SAT scores from applicants again | Svrluga, Susan | 2024, February 5 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Harvard and Caltech will require test scores for admission again | Svrluga, Susan | 2024, April 11 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission | Svrluga, Susan | 2024, February 22 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Can coaching truly boost SAT scores? For years, the College Board said no. Now it says yes | Strauss, Valerie | 2017, May 9 | Washington Post | LINK | |
The list of test-optional colleges and universities keeps growing — despite College Board’s latest jab | Strauss, Valerie | 2017, April 12 | Washington Post | LINK | |
How the SAT and PSAT collect personal data on students — and what the College Board does with it | Strauss, Valerie | 2017, March 30 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Study: High school grades best predictor of college success — not SAT/ACT scores | Strauss, Valerie | 2014, February 21 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Why MIT is an outlier in reinstating SAT/ACT scores for admissions | Bob Schaeffer | 2022, April 20 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Bombed the SAT or the ACT? Here are colleges that are ‘test-optional.’ | Anderson, Nick | 2015, July 27 | Washington Post | LINK | |
George Washington University applicants no longer need to take admissions tests | Anderson, Nick | 2015, July 27 | Washington Post | LINK | |
‘We didn’t know it was this bad’: New ACT scores show huge achievement gaps | Anderson, Nick | 2017, September 7 | Washington Post | LINK | |
New SAT scores sow confusion over how to tell a good result | Anderson, Nick | 2017, September 26 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Brown University will require SAT scores again | Svrluga, Susan and Natanson, Hannah | 2024, March 5 | Washington Post | LINK | |
College admits inflating SAT scores to boost ranking | Strauss, Valerie | 2012, January 31 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Why do U.S. News rankings punish test-optional colleges? | Rosen, David | 2017, October 23 | Washington Post | LINK | |
George Washington U. gets more diverse after ditching admission test mandate | Anderson, Nick | 2016, November 22 | Washington Post | LINK | |
Over 3 million applicants’ data leaked on NYU’s website | Niles, Dharma; Dev, Krish and Saadah, Yezen | 2025, March 22 | Washington Square News | LINK | |
College Board's SAT Selected for Statewide High School Assessment | 2017, September 13 | West Virginia Department of Education | LINK | ||
Why High School Students Don’t Need the SAT Anymore | Akil Bello and Harry Feder | 2022, November 4 | Word In Black | LINK | |
Illinois Moving Back to ACT as Required Exam for High School Graduation | Masterson, Matt | 2024, May 16 | WTTW News | LINK |
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How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds | Sacerdote, Bruce; Staiger, Douglas O. & Tine, Michele | 2025 January | National Bureau of Economic Research | LINK | |
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GPT takes the SAT: Tracing changes in Test Difficulty and Students’ Math Performance | Suresh, Vikram K. and Rawat, Saannidhya | 2024 September | University of Cincinnati | LINK | |
Changes in Predictive Validity of High School Grade Point Average and ACT Composite Score After the COVID-19 Pandemic | Sanchez, Edgar I. | 2024 September | ACT, Inc. | LINK | |
Testing the Way Forward: The Impact of Statewide ACT or SAT Testing on Postsecondary Outcomes | Swiderski, Tom | 2024 October | Vol. XX, No. X, pp. 1–21 | Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Month | LINK |
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Has the Relationship Between College Readiness Measures and Developmental Course Placement Changed in Recent Years? | Sanchez, Edgar I. | 2024 May | ACT Research | LINK | |
Classic Learning Test Concordance with the SAT | College Board Research | 2024 May | College Board | LINK | |
Test-Optional Admissions, Selectivity, And Enrollment Outcomes During The Pandemic | Rosinger, Kelly et al. | 2024 June | College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative | LINK | |
Can We Trust The Transcript? Recognizing Student Potential Through More Accurate Grading | Guerrero, Guadalupe | 2024 July | Equitable Grading Project | LINK | |
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The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants | Grossman, Joshua et al. | 2024 February | volume 14, Article number 4449 (2024) | Scientific Reports | LINK |
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The Role of Standardized Tests in College Admissions | Zwick, Rebecca | 2023 June | Civil Rights Project UCLA | LINK | |
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The Concordance Relationship Between the Classic Learning Test (CLT) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) | Gardner, Tracy et al. | 2023 | Classic Learning Test | LINK | |
Race-Conscious Affirmative Action - What’s Next | Carnevale, Anthony P.; Mabel, Zachary and Campbell, Kathryn Peltier | 2023 | Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce | LINK | |
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges | Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J. and Friedman, John N. | 2023 | National Bureau of Economic Research | LINK | |
Private, selective colleges are most likely to use race, ethnicity as a factor in admissions decisions | DeSilver, Drew | 2023 | Pew Research Center | LINK | |
Higher Education Brief: Classic Learning Test Concordance with the SAT | 2023 | College Board | LINK | ||
Merit Awards: Myths, Realities, & Barriers to Access - An Analysis of the Prevalence of Test-Based Scholarships | Bello, Akil & Feder, Harry | 2023 | FairTest.org | LINK | |
School-Day Administration of the ACT Test: Removing Barriers and Opening Doors for All Students | Allen, Jeff, Cruce, Ty & Dingler, Colin | 2023 | ACT, Inc. | LINK | |
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An Updated Look at SAT Score Relationships with College Degree Completion | Westrick, Paul A., Marini, Jessica P. and Shaw, Emily J. | 2022 | College Board | LINK | |
Examining the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impacts on ACT Scores | Jeff Allen | 2022 | ACT Research | LINK | |
New Evidence on Recent Changes in College Applications, Admissions, and Enrollments | College Board Research | 2022 | College Board | LINK | |
Grade Inflation Continues to Grow in the Past Decade | Sanchez, Edgar I. & Moore, Raeal | 2022 | ACT, Inc. | LINK | |
What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences | Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh & Ransom, Tyler | 2022 | National Bureau of Economic Research | LINK | |
Deadline update: first-year application trends through March 15 (Common App) | Freeman, Mark et al. | 2022 | Common App | LINK | |
Illustrating Comparability of ACT Scale Scores from Paper and Online Testing | Steedle, Jeffrey | 2022 | ACT, Inc. | LINK | |
Untested Admissions: Examining Changes in Application Behaviors and Student Demographics Under Test-Optional Policies | Bennett, Christopher T. | 2021 | American Educational Research Association | LINK | |
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Applying to college in a test-optional admissions landscape: trends from Common App data | Freeman, Mark et al. | 2021 | Common App | LINK | |
Essay Content is Strongly Related to Household Income and SAT Scores: Evidence from 60,000 Undergraduate Applications | Alvero, AJ., Giebel, S., Gebre-Medhin, B., Antonio, A.L., Stevens, M.L., & Domingue, B.W. | 2021 | Science Advances; Vol. 7, Issue 42 | LINK | |
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SAT/ACT Scores, High-School GPA, and the problem of Omitted Variable Bias: Why the UC Taskforce’s Findings are Spurious | Geiser, Saul | 2020 | UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education | LINK | |
Ensuring All Students Have Access to Higher Education: The Role of Standardized Testing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond | NACAC Task Force on Standardized Admission Testing | 2020 | National Association for College Admission Counseling | LINK | |
Relationship of the SAT to College Performance at the University of California | 2020 | University of California | LINK | ||
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Validity of SAT Essay Scores for Predicting First-Year Grades | Marini, Jessica P.; Westrick, Paul A.; Young, Linda et al. | 2019 | College Board | LINK | |
Validity of the SAT for Predicting First-Year Grades and Retention to the Second Year | Westrick, Paul A.; Marini, Jessica P.; Young, Linda et al. | 2019 | College Board | LINK | |
Predicting College Success: How Do Different High School Assessments Measure Up? | Kurlaender, Michael & Coen, Kramer | 2019 | Stanford Graduate School of Education - Policy Analysis for California Education | LINK | |
What We Know, Are Still Getting Wrong, and Have Yet to Learn about the Relationships among the SAT, Intelligence and Achievement | Frey, Meredith C. | 2019 | Journal of Intelligence; Dec; 7(4): 26. | LINK | |
2019 State of College Admission | Clinedinst, Melissa | 2019 | National Association for College Admission Counseling | LINK | |
Investigating Test Prep Impact on Score Gains Using Quasi-Experimental Propensity Score Matching | Moore, Raeal; Sanchez, Edgar & San Pedro, Maria Ofelia | 2018 | ACT, Inc. | LINK | |
Defining Access: How Test-Optional Works | Syverson, Steven T.; Franks, Valerie W., & Hiss, William C. | 2018 | National Association for College Admission Counseling | LINK | |
General Intelligence (g), ACT Scores, and Theory of Mind: (ACT)g Predicts Limited Variance Among Theory of Mind Tests | Coyle, Thomas R.; Elpers, Karrie E.; Gonzalez, Miguel C. et al. | 2018 | 85-91 | Intelligence; Volume 71, November–December | FEE REQUIRED |
Preparing for the SAT: A Review | Applerouth, J. I., & Zabrucky, K. M | 2017 | 92(1), 2-17 | College & University | FEE REQUIRED |
State of College Admission 2017 | Clinedinst, M. & Koranteng, Anna-Maria | 2017 | National Association of College Admissions Counseling | LINK | |
Demonstrated Interest: Signaling Behavior In College Admissions | Dearden, J.A. James A., Li, Suhui, Meyerhoefer, C.D., and Yang, Muzhe | 2017 | 35(4) 630-657 | Contemporary Economic Policy | FEE REQUIRED |
ACT for All: The Effect of Mandatory College Entrance Exams on Postsecondary Attainment and Choice | Hyman, J | 2017 | 12(3), 281-311 | Education Finance and Policy | LINK |
Use of Predictive Validity Studies to Inform Admission Practices | 2016 | National Association of College Admissions Counseling | LINK | ||
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The Impact of Participation in the Advanced Placement Program on Students' College Admissions Test Scores | Warne, R.T., Larsen, R., Anderson, B. and Odasso, A | 2015 | 108(5), 400-416 | The Journal of Educational Research | LINK |
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Defining Promise: Optional Standardized Testing Policies In American College And University Admissions | Hiss, W.C. & Franks, V.W | 2014 | NACAC | LINK | |
Synthesis of Recent SAT Validity Findings: Trend Data over Time and Cohorts 2014-1 | Mattern, K.D. & Patterson, B.F | 2014 | College Board | LINK | |
The Test-Optional Movement at America’s Selective Liberal Arts Colleges: A Boon for Equity or Something Else? | Belasco, A.S., Rosinger, K.O., and Hearn, J.C | 2014 | 20(10), 1-18 | Educational Evaluation And Policy Analysis | LINK |
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Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low-Income Students | Hoxby, C. & Turner, S | 2013 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | LINK | |
Linking Admission Strategies to Student Retention | Cortes, C.M. & Kalsbeek, D.H | 2012 | DePaul University, Enrollment Management and Marketing | LINK | |
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in SAT-Grade Relationships and in College Admissions Decisions | P. R. Sackett, N. R. Kuncel, A. S. Beatty, J. L. Rigdon, W. Shen, T. B. Kiger | 2012 | 23(9), 1000–1007 | Psychological Science | FEE REQUIRED |
The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students | Hoxby, C.M. & Avery, C | 2012 | National Bureau Of Economic Research | LINK | |
Test anxiety and performance-avoidance goals explain gender differences in SAT-V, SAT-M, and overall SAT scores | Hannon, B | 2012 | 53(7), 816-820 | Personality and Individual Differences | LINK |
Timing Matters: Test Preparation, Race, and Grade Level | Devine-Eller, A | 2012 | 27(2), 458-480 | Sociological Forum | FEE REQUIRED |
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SAT Performance: Understanding the Contributions of Cognitive/Learning and Social/Personality Factors | Hannon, B. & McNaughton-Cassill, M | 2011 | 25(4), 528-535 | Applied Cognitive Psychology | LINK |
SAT predicts GPA better for high ability subjects: Implications for Spearman’s Law of Diminishing Returns | Coyle, T., Snyder, A., Pillow, D., Kochunov, P | 2011 | 50(4), 470-474 | Personality and Individual Differences | LINK |
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Standardized Admission Tests, College Performance, and Campus Diversity | Espenshade, T.J. & Chung, C.Y | 2010 | Office of Population Research, Princeton University | LINK | |
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Preparation for College Admission Exams | Briggs, D.C | 2009 | National Association for College Admissions Counseling | LINK | |
Socioeconomic Status and the Relationship Between the SAT and Freshman GPA: An Analysis of Data from 41 Colleges and Universities | Sackett, P.R., Kuncel, N.R., Arneson, J.J. Cooper, S.R., and Waters, S.D | 2009 | The College Board | LINK | |
Reflections on a Century of College Admissions Tests | Atkinson, R.C. & Geiser, S | 2009 | 38(9), 665–676 | Educational Researcher | LINK |
Prediction of 4-year college student performance using cognitive and noncognitive predictors and the impact on demographic status of admitted students | Schmitt, N., Keeney, J., Oswald, F.L., Pleskac, T.J., Billington, A.Q., Sinha, R. and Zorzie, M | 2009 | 94(6), 1479-97 | Journal of Applied Psychology | LINK |
Report of the Commission on the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission | 2008 | National Association of College Admissions Counseling | LINK | ||
ACT and general cognitive ability | Koenig, K.A., Frey, M.C., and Detterman, D.K | 2007 | 36(2), 153-160 | Intelligence | LINK |
The Rainbow Project: Enhancing the SAT through assessments of analytical, practical, and creative skills | Sternberg, R.J | 2006 | 34, 321–350 | Intelligence | LINK |
Scholastic Assessment or g? The Relationship Between the Scholastic Assessment Test and General Cognitive Ability | Frey, M.C. & Detterman, D.K | 2004 | 15(6), 373-378 | Psychological Science | LINK |
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A Historical Perspective on the Content of the SAT | Lawrence, I.M., Rigol, G.W., Van Essen, T., Jackson, C.A | 2003 | College Board Research Report | LINK | |
UC and the SAT: Predictive Validity and Differential Impact of the SAT I and SAT II at the University of California | Geiser, S. & Studley, R | 2001 | University of California Office of the President | LINK | |
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