Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided [Hardcover]

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press; 1st ed., 1st Ptg edition (August 28, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691149283
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691149288

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Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities.

In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of the most widely held beliefs in education today and the policies that have resulted are wrong. He shows why colleges that make the SAT optional for applicants end up with underperforming students and inflated national rankings, and why the push to substitute achievement tests for aptitude tests makes no sense.

Wainer challenges the thinking behind the enormous rise of advanced placement courses in high schools, and demonstrates why assessing teachers based on how well their students perform on tests central pillar of recent education reforms is woefully misguided.

He explains why college rankings are often lacking in hard evidence, why essay questions on tests disadvantage women, why the most grievous errors in education testing are not made by testing organizations and much more.

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