Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century

by Camara, Wayne J.; Kimmel, Ernest W.; Willingham, Warren W.; Julian, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780805847529
• ISBN10: 0805847529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-17
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can--or should--choose students during the early part of the 21st century. The volume is particularly timely because the question of how changes in adm

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Diversity in Higher Education
Competition in Higher Education and Admissions Testing	3	(10)
Lee C. Bollinger
What Is It We Think We Are Trying to Fix and How Should We Fix It? A View From the Admissions Office	13	(20)
Robert Laird
Who Is at the Door? The Demography of Higher Education in the 21st Century	33	(20)
Ernest W. Kimmel
Broadening Criteria of College Success and the Impact of Cognitive Predictors	53	(28)
Wayne J. Camara
Broadening Predictors of College Success	81	(28)
Wayne J. Camara
Part II: Improving Current Practice
The Performance--Diversity Tradeoff in Admission Testing	109	(18)
Paul R. Sackett
Prospects for Improving Grades for Use in Admissions	127	(14)
Warren W. Willingham
Evaluating College Applicants: Some Alternatives	141	(18)
Robert L. Linn
Part III: New Constructs and New Measures
Augmenting the SAT Through Assessments of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Skills	159	(18)
Robert J. Sternberg
The Case for Noncognitive Measures	177	(18)
William E. Sedlacek
Broadening the Performance Domain in the Prediction of Academic Success	195	(20)
Neal Schmitt
Frederick L. Oswald
Michael A. Gillespie
Assessing the Personal Characteristics of Premedical Students	215	(16)
Patricia M. Etienne
Ellen R. Julian
Access and Diversity in Law School Admissions	231	(20)
Peter J. Pashley
Andrea E. Thornton
Jennifer R. Duffy
Toward a Science of Assessment	251	(22)
Isaac I. Bejar
Part IV: Admission in the Context of K--16 Reform Efforts
The Integration of Secondary and Postsecondary Assessment Systems: Cautionary Concerns	273	(12)
Stanley Rabinowitz
Rethinking Admission and Placement in an Era of New K--12 Standards	285	(28)
Michael W. Kirst
Proficiency-Based Admissions	313	(18)
David T. Conley
Author Index	331	(12)
Subject Index	343