... known as the "Army Alpha" was an IQ test administered by the United States Army to evaluate the intelligence of new recruits. Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. In 1933, President ... of Harvard University James Bryant Conant, implemented a new scholarship program for academically gifted males. As an instrument to measure the intelligence of college applicants, Conant ... into the exam. Every ye...

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... . Nowadays a substantial amount of college Athletes are given more leniencies towards the academic standards, which are expected from others. Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. Providing athletes and soon to be athletes with privileges that are not ... are eligible to enter universities, and are rejected because they are not star athletes. There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted i...

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... counteract the bias in admissions. Some educators now view admissions tests such as the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT), originally created to simplify admissions testing for prestigious private schools, as disadvantageous to women and minorities. Critics of the SAT believed the test did not adequately account for differences in social and economic background. Whenever something as ... involved in the financing or control of schools. Elementary Education and the Common-School Movement The American school system originated in the 1830s and 1840s, when a new generation of education reform...

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