David Coleman Is Redesigning the SAT. Does He Know What He’s Doing?
31st October 2013
Steve Sailer has doubts.
Coleman’s philosophy basically appears to be the same as every other educational reformer: Be Like Me. Coleman is a bright, cultured former McKinsey consultant, and thus his Common Core write-up would be a good outline for the home schooling of David Coleman Jr.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen much evidence that he knows much at all about, say, psychometrics.
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The point of having standardized college admission tests is to fill in the obvious shortcoming of just using high school GPA. Making the SAT more like high school seems pointless. If we are all supposed to be into “critical thinking,” maybe we should make high school more like the old SAT?