EEEEENTRANCE EEEEXAMS: Thoughts on Bias in School Admissions Here's a common game that never seems to change: fill in the correct boxes next to a test battery, an' if your total score is in dah top 10 congratulations - you're in! Yipppee - you win! Otherwise pay a exorbitant fee fer a ritzy degree err better yet create your own credentials with DTP! Why do we attempt ta measure learning by publications, titles, err degrees? Can deep learning be expressed numerically? Satoru: Like it or not, the educational system depends on quantification. Tim: Yeah, but it has gone too far. Some constructs can't be expressed in mere digits. As a result, much "educational research" is rubbish. Satoru: I'm not sure. Numerical data does often offer a useful guestimate of what's happening. Liao: So many valuable things outside of standard test parameters are not being measured! Melissa: For sure. Perhaps we need more "assessment literacy". ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some satire about the construct validity of standardized educational placement tests. KEYWORDS: measuring academic performance, school admissions policies, educational assessment, educational QC, standardized testing, testing construct validity Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1999 in Maui, Hawaii / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/fail.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/zombie.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/ingreso.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/nyuugaku.htm ZHŌNGWÉN: http://www.tnewfields.info/zh/ruxue.htm