{"product_id":"9780807752623","title":"SAT Wars : The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can check off the most correct boxes on a multiple-choice exam? Or are there better ways of measuring ability and promise? In this penetrating and revealing look at high-stakes standardised admissions tests, Joseph Soares demonstrates the far-reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e SAT Wars presents a roadmap for rethinking college admissions that moves us past the statistically weak and socially divisive SAT\/ACT. The author advocates for evaluation tools with a greater focus on what youth actually accomplish in high school as a more reliable indicator of qualities that really matter in one's life and to one's ability to contribute to society. This up-to-date book features contributions by well-known experts, including a piece from Daniel Golden, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in the Wall Street Journal on admissions, and a chapter on alternative tests from Robert Sternberg, who is the world's most-cited living authority on educational research. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e As we continue to debate the use and misuse of standardised testing, SAT Wars will be important reading for a wide audience, including college administrators and faculty, high school guidance counsellors, education journalists, and parents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Teachers' College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48684451070187,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":58.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780807752623-1.jpg?v=1785758572","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780807752623","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}