West, Anne 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2932-7667 and Gibbs, Rebecca
(2004)
Selecting undergraduate students: what can the UK learn from the American SAT?
Higher Education Quarterly, 58 (1).
pp. 63-67.
ISSN 0951-5224
Abstract
This short paper explores the contribution or otherwise that could be made by using a test akin to the American Scholastic Assessment Test or SAT to select students for undergraduate degrees in the UK. It examines the political context to the debate about the potential value of such a test, before outlining how SAT results in America vary along dimensions related to social background and how American universities have adapted their admissions procedures in response to these differences. From the research examined it cannot be assumed that the introduction of a test such as the SAT would be any more equitable then the current use of public examinations in England. It is suggested that profiling students along the lines used by some American universities may assist with making access ‘fairer’.
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This is an electronic version of an Article published in Higher Education Quarterly 58(1) pp. 63-67 © 2004 Blackwell Publishing. LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. |
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Social Policy |
| Subjects: |
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Date Deposited: |
22 Dec 2005 |
| Last Modified: |
13 Sep 2024 21:49 |
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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/211 |
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