Standardized testing for universities

A federal commission recommends standardized testing for public universities.

I support this recommendation. Massive amounts of money are spent on higher education. The public is entitled to know what benefit, if any, the college students are obtaining from their education.

I suspect that marginal students who don’t belong in college in the first place aren’t learning very much.

Comments

[SFG]

Waste of time. As you yourself have documented quite well, the primary value of the diploma is signaling.

It doesn't matter what they learn there, the only thing that matters is that they go. Sort of silly actually. You could remove the entire lower tier with no effect on the workforce--after equilibrium. But the first generation fo people prevented from going to a lower-tier school would suffer in the job market having to compete with people who had gone to the lower-tier schools while they still existed.

So we're stuck wasting everyone's money.

[Christy]

Yeah, I remember my fresh year college roommate was taking the remedial math class, and literally struggling to get a C on a test about fractions. She was paying over 20K a year to do this.

[AG]

Standardized test will at least give every body a equal playing field. Closer to mericratic ideal.