Key People And Key Terms
Key Ideas or Theories
Thesis, Purpose, and Test Types
Paragraph Summaries
Mystery
100
Involves many attributes but cannot be in pointed by one thing.
What is Intelligence
100
it’s all about the grades.
What is The first theory
100
A standardized testing initiative in United States higher educational evaluation and assessment. It uses a "value-added" outcome model to examine a college or university's contribution to student learning which relies on the institution, rather than the individual student, as the primary unit of analysis
What is CLA
100
Schools like Harvard and Yale were made to produce a privileged social class.
What is Paragraph 12
100
Author left
What is Ivy School
200
The idea that college is about sorting intelligent people from others.
What is Theory of Education
200
only thing that matters is that student’s actually learn.
What is The second theory
200
Divided into four multiple choice subject tests: English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning. Subject test scores range from 1 to 36
What is ACT
200
Students who aren’t ready to attend a liberal arts college should have the option to do vocational training instead. Why should they have to attend liberal arts if they don’t need it?
What is Paragraph 44
200
says it’s difficult to teach unprepared students how to write
Who is Professor X
300
Professor at New York University, Sociologist, author of Academically Adrift
Who is Richard Arum
300
Less time is being dedicated to studying compared to
What is Past gernrations
300
The most widely used standardized test for college admissions.
What is SAT
300
As private colleges became more selective, public colleges became more accepting.
What is Paragraph 15
300
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa wrote
What is Academically Adrift
400
Professor at the University of Virgina, Sociologist, author of Academically Adrift
Who is Josipa Roksa
400
students majoring in liberal arts.
What is Theory three
400
Menand explores the reasons we have college, its usefulness in society and to the students that attend these universities.
What is The purpose
400
Author worked at an Ivy League school where no one questioned the value of education. The author had no idea about his student’s personal lives.
What is Paragraph 1
400
2000 freshman took the CLA test in this year
What is 2005
500
the dean of modern higher-education research, now a professor at U.C.L.A., published an opposition on Arum and Roksa’s methodology in the Chronicle of Higher Educatio
Who is Alexander Astin
500
You make judgments earlier on deciding which students will advance into college because they can intellectually handle it.
What is The tracking approach
500
“Society wants to identify intelligent people early on so that it can funnel them into careers that maximize their talents. Society wants the most out of its human resources. College is a process that is sufficiently multifaceted and fine-grained to do this.”
What is The thesis
500
“Why did we have to buy this book?” is the main idea of the paper
What is Paragraph 50
500
How many licks does it take to get to the end of a lolipop
What is No one knows
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