Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students

Autor/in	Astin, Alexander W.
Titel	Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 103 (2017) 2 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Access to Education; College Preparation; College Readiness; Equal Education; Cognitive Ability; Academic Ability; Selective Admission; Standardized Tests; Disadvantaged Youth; College Admission; College Entrance Examinations; Publish or Perish Issue; Grading; Alternative Assessment; Testing; SAT (College Admission Test); ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Denkfähigkeit; Bildungsselektion; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Aufnahmeprüfung; Notengebung; Schulnote; Testdurchführung; Testen; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest
Abstract	The social and economic inequities in America's K-12 education system are well known, what with a rapidly expanding system of expensive private schools and the striking contrasts between urban and suburban public schools. America's higher education system, on the other hand, is generally regarded as far more equitable, given that each of the fifty states attempts to provide low-cost higher education opportunities for almost any high school graduate. Nevertheless, these "open-access" state systems mask an important truth about American postsecondary education: the opportunities available to students with differing levels of academic preparation are far from equivalent. Our system invests the most in those students with the highest levels of academic preparation, and the least in those with the poorest preparation. As long as postsecondary educational opportunities remain so unequal for students with differing levels of preparation, higher education will continue to be handicapped in its efforts to contribute to a more just and equitable society. The author states that college faculties need to focus more on "cultivating" and "developing" smartness than on merely "identifying" and "celebrating" it. Having regular access to information concerning how their students are "changing" and "developing" over time should help shift the attention of college faculties more in the direction of the learning process. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01