SAT Testing
* Re “UC Faculty Chief Backs Dropping SAT,” Feb. 18.
The emperor wears no clothes! Finally, someone of authority is willing to criticize our reliance on SAT scores as the main determinate in college admission.
Congratulations Michael Cowan and Richard Atkinson for having the courage to publicly expose the uselessness of this test. Your proposal for a test that is based upon real knowledge (applicable to college curriculum) is logical, intelligent and dead-on.
Tests should be designed to give accurate and useful information, or what is the point of having them?
Perhaps when Cowan and Atkinson have finished straightening out the UC system, they can begin work on California’s K-12 norm testing.
BONITA DEAMICIS
Santa Clarita
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