College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

"…The essays in this volume represent serious and reflective approaches to improving college and university admissions. The contributors to the volume include many leaders in the field drawn largely from the psychometric approach to improving college admissions. We are fortunate to have researchers who take such an important problem seriously and bring psychometric thinking to bear on how to make college admissions better."

--From the Foreword by Robert J. Sternberg, Professor of Psychology, Cornell University

"These essays may prove to be referenced to a kind of institution of higher education in the future that is yet to emerge and to an admissions process that is itself as educative as it is facilitative of one’s admission to college. In another of my lives, my colleagues and I are dreaming and speculating about the repurposing of educational testing and measurement to better serve the interests of learning. The college admissions process could become more a part of the college teaching and learning functions than of the facilitation of the transition from high school to college."

--From the Afterword by Edmund Gordon, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Yale University and Richard March Hoe Professor, Emeritus of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University

“It is rare that you read a book on educational research and think, ‘I know a LOT of people who should read this.’ College Admissions and Testing in a Time of Transformational Change, however, is one of those cases. It goes back to the original point of this review: college admissions touches more lives that most topics in our field, and criticisms thereof are usually made without a thorough understanding of history, context, and complexity. This book provides all of those at an important time for our field. I share Dr. Geisinger’s optimism for how higher education will emerge from these times, and I certainly foresee this book playing a part.”

--Ross Markle, from the review in Applied Measurement in Education