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Jewish World Review
August 27, 2013/ 21 Elul, 5773
Getting tested for your dream job
By
Dave Ross
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You've taken the SAT, the ACT, the GRE -- now there could be yet another test before you get that dream job.
The problem, according to the Wall Street Journal's Doug Belkin, is that employers are finding that a college degree is no longer a guarantee that a graduate knows anything.
"Part of the issue is they don't really know what they're getting from college graduates when they graduate. There has been so much grade inflation over the past 30 years or so that a kid who graduates with a 3.7 (grade point average) --- it doesn't necessarily mean that they've done that much work, that they're that intelligent, because the letter grade that's most common on college campuses is an A," says Belkin.
It got this way because a lot of colleges are being run more like cruise ships than rigorous academic institutions. Belkin calls it "The Corporatization of the United States University" and said it's a business model. Students are treated like customers you want to make happy.
Even more so, the parents paying for college are like the customers. They're paying a lot of money to send their kids.
"So it's been easier to give kids better grades --- and that's what's been happening."
So next spring, seniors at about 200 U.S. colleges will take a new test called the Collegiate Learning Assessment, designed to "provide an objective, benchmarked report card for critical thinking skills." (Take a practice test)
"Some of this was driven by corporate America who spent a lot of money helping employees get better at these skills. If they find kids coming out of school who are good at them already, then it's going to save them money," said Belkin.
And it won't look like those other standardized tests.
The idea behind the CLA is measuring how information is synthesized --- not specific areas of knowledge, but how students can use information to help make decisions in an age when you can pretty much Google everything. The test asks what you could do with that information.
"How you understand it, how you synthesize it and eventually innovate with what surprises you by industry," said Belkin.
The new test would also provide a consistent way to assess students who take online courses and if it catches on, might eventually replace the college degree.
A survey three years ago showed that only one in four employers think that two and four-year colleges are doing a good job preparing students for the global economy.
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Comment by clicking here. Dave Ross hosts the Morning News on Seattle's KIRO Radio weekdays from 5-9 a.m. He spends his down time tinkering with electronic projects, writing novelty songs, shopping at thrift stores, and playing squash. As an avid hiker, he's earned the title Energizer Bunny from his friends; while they all stop to see stuff along the trail, Dave keeps going and going and going. He enjoys traveling internationally for work and pleasure with memorable stops in Baghdad, Qatar, Israel, Prague, Germany (to cover the Berlin Wall), China, Soviet Union, Niger, Senegal, and Iran.
You can listen to his daily column in audio format by clicking here.
Previously:
• 08/26/13 A thug tells us how to stop gun trafficking
• 08/23/13 The better to see you with, Mr. Bad guy
• 08/22/13 The latest outburst of anarchy
• 08/21/13 Send al Qeda to crime ridden cities?
• 08/20/13 How honeybees are keeping men out of prison
• 08/19/13 Truth about Area 51 finally revealed
• 08/16/13 If you knew how much it cost to raise a child
• 08/15/13 The voice in the nursery
• 08/14/13 When license plates speak
• 08/13/13 The plant that wouldn't die
• 08/12/13 Class warfare at 35,000 feet is just fine
• 08/09/13 Want a good night's sleep? Become homeless
• 08/08/13 When eating too healthy becomes a problem
• 08/07/13 The Die Phone
• 08/06/13 Can't afford a doctor or medicine? There's always the Placebo App
• 08/05/13 Car prowlers taught lesson with call to mom
© 2013, Dave Ross
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