Stasis Grid

Adam Gex

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1.Jonathan
Lash, President
of Hampshire
College

Results of
Removing
Standardized
Test Scores
From College
Admissions.
Huffington
Post Letter to
the Editor

Bias towards
high income
students who
can afford test
prep exists

Success at
college is not a
result of high
test scores on
the SAT/ACT

Eliminating the
SAT/ACT from
admission has
positively
increased the
amount of
students to accept
admission to the
school and the
quality of
applicants

2.Sonali Seth,
student at the
University of
Southern
California

Its time for

admissions to
stop requiring
the SAT
completely.
Op-ed from
school
newspaper,
Daily Trojan.

Division of
class exists,
favoring higher
income
families who
can afford prep
for test
Students spend
more time
studying the
tricks of the
tests than the
information on
the test

Admission
tests are not
objective, they
falsely
represent a
portion of
students who
dont learn how
to study a test,
not information

Using
admission tests
causes
universities to
miss out on
excellent
students who
have great
personal
components in
admission, but
subpar test
scores

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3. Danni Wang,
student at
University of
Southern
California

Standardized
tests are crucial
for objectivity
in admissions.
Op-ed from
school
newspaper,
Daily Trojan.

Every school
has completely
different grade,
ranking, and
class systems
that make
admissions
subjective

Objectivity
doesnt exist
unless
SAT/ACT stay
as the
standardized
admission tool

4. Editorial
Board at the
Washington Post

Getting rid of
SAT and ACT
testing is a
mistake. Oped from
Washington
Post

Getting rid of
the SAT/ACT
is a mistake

No college in
the world can
know the
difference
between an Aminus and Bplus since each
college grades
differently

5. Emory
Wheel,
featured article
by the website
writers

Our Opinion:
Rethinking the
SAT. from Oped on Emory
Wheel

Cant get rid of

standardized
admission tests
until a more
holistic
assessment is
replaced in its
spot

Standardized
tests are not a
holistic
assessment
because they
favor good test
takers and
people who can
afford test prep

Continued
improvements
to the
SAT/ACT help,
but still leaves
it flawed and in

Eliminating
admission tests
would cause
people from
Chinese
heritage to be
at a
disadvantage
since their
culture focuses
on test taking
Test scores
correlate
closely with
individual
achievement in
college and
beyond

Eliminating the
SAT/ACT
raised the
diversity of
Hampshire
College from
21%-31%

Colleges
should fight to
improve the
SAT/ACT by
leveling the
field
economically
and making
the test a true
representative
of knowledge
Universities
should require
portfolios
beginning in 9th
grade that
holistically
cover
achievements
and endeavors
in and out of
school, instead
of taking
standardized
tests.

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need of
replacement or
complete
overhaul

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

6. Edward W.
Wiley, Richard
J. Shavelson,
and Amy A.
Kurpius. All
the authors
work at SK
Partners LLC,
which is a
professional
service firm
that conducts
research on
topics such as
education and
work.

On the
Factorial
Structure of
the SAT and
Implications
for NextGeneration
College
Readiness
Assessment
s. Scholarly
journal that
conducts
professional
research on
behalf of SK
Partners LLC
for Stanford
University
College
Admissions:
Beyond
Conventional
Testing.
Scholarly

The
mathematics
section of the
SAT does truly
measure ones
ability in that
subject
effectively.

Since the
critical reading
and writing
sections fail to
measure a test
takers
comprehension
of those
subjects, the
current SAT in
this format is
not an accurate
tool for college
admission.

The restructured
SAT in 2005
unfairly made the
test less
beneficial in
measuring
someones
intellectual
ability.

The new
restructured
SAT of 2015
has to
effectively
measure
critical
thinking in
reading and
writing to be a
valid
admission test

The College
Board is
responsible to
either make the
necessary
changes or
come up with a
new admission
tool.

The Rainbow
Project should
be used
instead of the
SAT and ACT
since the

It is the
universities job
to demand a
better test from
the College
Board, pressure

7. Robert J.
Sternberg. He
is a provost,
senior vice
president, and
Regents

Critical reading
and writing
sections of the
SAT do not
measure ones
ability to
critically think
in those
subjects
effectively.
Universities are
reluctant to get
rid of
admission tests
since they
report numbers

Admission
tests only test a
narrow
segment of
skills needed to
be successful in

Admission tests
cause wealthier
demographics
to score better
since the poorer
demographics

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Professor of
Psychology and
Education at
Oklahoma
State

journal that
provides
research on
admission
testing.

the universities
can visually
use to sort
candidates

8. Richard
Sawyer,
researcher for
the ACT office
in Iowa City.

"Beyond
Correlations:
Usefulness of
High School
GPA and Test
Scores in
Making College
Admissions
Decisions." Sch
olarly journal
done by the
ACT office to
provide
information to
schools using
their test.

Both High
School GPA
and the ACT
have a similar
correlation to
success in
college.
High School
GPA, for the
most, is a better
predictor of
future success
than the ACT.

Adam Gex
college and
after college.

cant afford test

prep

Rainbow
project test
both creative
and practical
skills and
better predicts
student
excellence in
college.

Rainbow
Project is a
livelier test that
is shorter than
the SAT but
asks
qualitative,
quantitative,
and aptitude
questions that
reveal
creativity and
intellect.
The best way to
predict
academic
success is to
use High
School GPA
and the ACT
jointly as a tool
for admission.

The ACT is a
more objective
and fair predictor
of success since it
is standardized
for all test takers
compared to the
larger standard
deviation of High
School GPA.

changes, and
push for more
meaningful
exams like the
Rainbow
Project

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9. Susan J.
Berger, an
independent
scholar from
Chicago

The Rise and

Demise of the
SAT.
Scholarly
journal done to
address the
future
relevancy of the
SAT

10. Rebecca
Zwick,
Professor of
Education at
UC Santa
Barbara

"Eliminating
Standardized
Tests in College
Admissions:
The New
Affirmative
Action?" Schol
arly journal
done at UCSB
to address race
in the context
of admission
testing

11. Steven
Syverson, Dean
of Admission at
Lawrence
University

"The Role of
Standardized
Tests in College
Admissions:
Test-Optional
Admissions."

Adam Gex
SAT is not a
useful
admission tool
if the test
continues to
claim that it is
an accurate
predictor of
college success

High School
core curriculum
will create a
better
admission tool
than admission
tests

Racial bias
exists in
admission
selection with
or without the
SAT and ACT

Racial
inequality for
admission is
more of a lack
of opportunity,
so eliminating
admission tests
actually takes
away another
opportunity
from students
on the lower
socioeconomic
scale.

The huge
difference in
high school
education from
state to state,
county to
county, creates
more
socioeconomic
bias than
admission tests

The most
selective
colleges
actually have
the least need
for the use of

Test Optional
admissions are
effective in
attracting more
applicants and
creating more

The desire for

universities to
appear
selective and
luxurious
causes them to

Standardized
admission tests
are archaic since
they dont
account for the
differing
educational
teaching from
state to state.

The elimination
of admission tests
could potentially
harm the school
by allowing
outliers into the

Creating a
core
curriculum for
high school
students in the
universities
state to
complete will
create an easy
admission
selection
process since
all students
are taking
similar classes
To more
accurately see
if racial bias
exists, college
success should
be measured
inside of your
major or at the
end of
graduation
compared to
the current
structure of
looking at
GPA after first
year
If test scores
are eliminated
in the
admission
process, other
tools like extra

State
Universities
should place
the importance
on high school
academic
success in core
classes that can
be review
objectively in
order to
eliminate the
need for
admission tests

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12. Jennifer
Kobrin,
researcher for
the College
Board, who
releases the
SAT

Scholarly
journal
discussing the
advantages and
disadvantages
of
implementing
test optional
admissions

admission tests
in their
selection
process.

"Contextual
Factors
Associated with
the Validity of
SAT Scores and
High School
GPA for
Predicting
First-Year
College
Grades." Schola
rly journal done
by College
Board
employee who
researched the
validity of the

High School
GPA and SAT
Math scores are
directly
proportional at
most times

Adam Gex
diversity

College existed
before
admission tests
and likely will
continue to
exist after
admission tests
are gone.

High School
GPA and
critical
reading/writing
on the SAT are
not closely
related.

hold to their
tradition of
using test
scores as a tool
for admission.

school, and
having those
outliers not
perform well
academically

essays and
portfolios
should be used
to be able to
review the
applicant.

The system of
using SAT scores
with GPA has
worked over the
years to help
highly selective
schools predict
academic success
for applicants.

Dont get rid

of SATs as an
admission
tool, rather
learn how to
use them
alongside GPA
to review
applicants

If universities
make decisions
based off tests,
they can blame
the test for being
skewed if
accepted students
fail, while if they
make admission
decisions based
off subjective
components it is
solely the
universities fault
if students fail.

SAT scores
arent useless,
freshmen GPA
had a
correlation
r=.87 with
outstanding
SAT scores

The more
selective a
school is, the
higher the High
School GPA
and SAT test
scores will be

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SAT and High

School GPA to
college success

13. Stephen J.
Dollinger,
Psychology
Professor at
Southern
Illinois
University

"Standardized
Minds or
Individuality?
Admissions
Tests and
Creativity
Revisited."
Scholarly
journal
addressing
whether
admission tests
capture a
certain type of
thinker.

Evidence
supports that
standardized
tests do predict
creativity

14. ONeil et al,

all are doctors
teaching
medical school
classes at the
University of
Denmark

"Medical
School Dropout
- Testing at
Admission
Versus
Selection by
Highest Grades
as Predictors."
Scholarly
journal done to
research which
system of
prediction will
yield the best

Admission
Tests
accurately
reveal how a
student reacts
in high
pressure
situations

Admission
Tests measure
your openness
to experience.

Standardized
minds are
created when
no added
information is
given to
supplement the
test scores

Taking
admission tests
allows the
admission
counselors to
know your
basic
correlation in
predicting
college
achievement,
self-reported
GPA, and
course
performance.
Students with
higher GPAs
tend to dropout
at a higher rate
per 2 years than
students with
higher test
scores
Socioeconomic
state of student
does not lead to
drop out rate of
university

Admission Tests
do not unfairly
test creative
thinkers.

Admission
Tests need to
stay in the
admission
process
because while
creativity can
measured in
other ways,
future
achievement
correlates
highly with
high test
scores.

Admission
offices at
universities
need to create
more
personality
questions for
students to
answer which
will facilitate
test scores and
GPA to find the
best applicants

We need to
keep
admission
tests in order
for
universities to
predict their
dropout rate.

Professors in
high school and
college should
teach students
the information
that will come
up on their
admission tests
to yield better
scores.

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medical
students

15. Robert J.
Sternberg, He
is a provost,
senior vice
president, and
Regents
Professor of
Psychology and
Education at
Oklahoma
State and
former
Professor at
Yale University.

"Theory-Based
University
Admissions
Testing for a
New
Millennium."
Scholarly
journal
explaining the
Rainbow
Project and
researched done
on its validity

Case study
problems and
situational
judgment
problems
predict inside
and outside of
classroom
success

The Rainbow
Project is a
measure of
using critical
thinking to
solve practical
and creative
problems

CSPs and SJPs

even reveal
abilities that
admission tests
arent capable
of measuring

Admission Tests
dont let creative
people play to
their strengths
and show their
creativity

The Rainbow
Project needs
to replace the
SAT/ACT in
order to show
admission
counselors the
practical and
creative skills
that a student
possesses.

High Schools
need to put an
emphasis on
critical problem
solving of real
life situations,
in order to
prepare
students for a
test such as the
Rainbow
Project

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