And, I think it's going to change a lot of things in the United States, probably, for the better.”įor his part, Palumbo says that since California is a major exporter of students (the largest number ending up in Boeckenstedt’s state), the UCS’s decision to forgo standardised testing will put pressure on other colleges and universities to move away from testing if they want to attract Californians. “Obviously, California has a right to do inside California whatever it wants to do,” says Boeckenstedt, “but as an outside observer, I’m very much supportive of their move to test-free admissions. For, in May, the regents had voted to temporarily suspend the use of the tests.Īccording to Jon J Boeckenstedt, vice provost for enrolment management at OSU in Corvallis, Oregon, and Andrew Palumbo, vice president enrolment management at WPI, because of the importance of the UCS schools and the number of applicants (more than 250,000, a tenth of the nation’s total), California’s decision will affect admissions offices across the country. A month later, the contentious recommendation to continue using the tests resulted in a number of lawsuits from minority and low-income students, who argued that the tests discriminated against them.Ī suit brought by a number of disabled students charged that they were discriminated against “because they will not be able to take them with appropriate accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic”.īy 31 August 2020, when the Superior Court of the State of California issued an injunction preventing the university from using the SATs or ACTs in admissions decisions, the issue had become moot. Before COVID had become a crisis, the system’s then president, Janet Napolitano (who had been secretary of homeland security under former president Barack Obama), tasked the academic senate with reviewing the tests. UCS, however, began moving away from using the tests the previous January. Many of the more than 1,800 colleges and universities that the Maryland-based National Center for Fair and Open Testing counts as being “test-optional”, became so in the spring of 2020 after the COVID-19 crisis that prevented the use of school buildings for testing. In an email to University World News laying out the timeline that led to the decision, Joanna McWilliams, communications strategist for UC President Michael V Drake, MD, explained that this past September, a study group recommended against producing an in-house option over “concerns regarding potential bias, moderate predictive power, and the adverse effects of high-stakes testing”, which are the same concerns critics have long made of the SATs and ACTs, both of which are commercial products. This decision announced last week puts the University of California System (UCS), which also includes UC Davis and UC Irvine, in line with approximately 85 other colleges and universities, including Ivy League member Cornell University and the City University of New York, as well as Oregon State University (OSU) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts.
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Tweet The University of California System – the largest and most prestigious public university system in the United States, which includes such top-tier schools as Berkeley and UCLA – has announced that it will stop using both the Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT) for admissions and it will not use a test developed in-house either.