Showing posts with label tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tests. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2026

Exam schools, gifted programs, and "giftedness"

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 Are some children more gifted than others, and can they be identified in ways that aren't irreparably confounded with socioeconomic sta...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Lawyerly characteristics of American law students

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 The Americans With Disabilities Act requires schools to make accommodations for students whose disabilities require extra time for completi...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

A controversial artificial intelligence experiment in Hungary

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 Peter Biro alerts me to this artificial intelligence experiment  that caused a backlash when it was conducted in Hungary. Here's the s...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Cheating on exams in India , and exam design suggestions from Spain

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 India, where government jobs are allocated based on scores on a variety of national exams, cheating is a big business. One form it takes is...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Standardized testing returns to college admissions

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  Standardized admissions exams are making a comeback: Elite French university revives entrance exam to combat AI fears. Sciences Po reverse...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Return to previous school assignment policies (in some respects) under New York City's new mayor

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 In NYC, the pendulum is still swinging between inclusive admissions as measured by demographics and determined by lottery, and meritocratic...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Reducing the costs of preparing for high stakes exams by reporting scores coarsely

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 In many countries, national exams serve as the gateway to college admissions and other prizes, and many applicants incur great costs in tim...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system

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 The SF Chronicle has the latest twist in this involved story over San Francisco's elite Lowell High School. Lowell High School admissio...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Who Benefits from Meritocracy? by Diana Moreira & Santiago Pérez

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 Exams for U.S. civil service positions apparently started for some positions in 1883, and here's an NBER working paper that looks at th...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

What are (swim) tests for?

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  Tests serve multiple purposes, they can be to screen, to certify, to incentivize.  In recent years we have seen concern about tests' d...