As others have pointed out, the GRE’s, GMAT’s and LSAT’s already exist as standardized tests appropriate for university graduates. Apparently there IS demand on the part of graduate schools for a more standardized grading of undergraduates and they all require some of these tests. Presumably if there was any real desire for a more standardized grading beyond graduate schools, they could also require these tests. I am unaware of any employers who require GREs.
So the real problem with your proposal is it solves a problem that is already solved by graduate schools using GRE’s etc, and which isn’t perceived as a problem by anybody else (except presumably some of the posters on this board who presumably put precisely none of their money where their mouths are.)
I would also note that US Universities generally enjoy quite a lot better reputation than schools in the US pre-university level education system. And it is in the less respected system in which much more inroads towards standardized testing and standardizing education has been made. I’m not quite sure what this implies, but I do know I am fatally sceptical of any argument that says “we manage to do this in high schools and lower schools why can’t we do it in universities” because the last thing I want is for our universities to emulate our much inferior pre-university system.
As others have pointed out, the GRE’s, GMAT’s and LSAT’s already exist as standardized tests appropriate for university graduates. Apparently there IS demand on the part of graduate schools for a more standardized grading of undergraduates and they all require some of these tests. Presumably if there was any real desire for a more standardized grading beyond graduate schools, they could also require these tests. I am unaware of any employers who require GREs.
So the real problem with your proposal is it solves a problem that is already solved by graduate schools using GRE’s etc, and which isn’t perceived as a problem by anybody else (except presumably some of the posters on this board who presumably put precisely none of their money where their mouths are.)
I would also note that US Universities generally enjoy quite a lot better reputation than schools in the US pre-university level education system. And it is in the less respected system in which much more inroads towards standardized testing and standardizing education has been made. I’m not quite sure what this implies, but I do know I am fatally sceptical of any argument that says “we manage to do this in high schools and lower schools why can’t we do it in universities” because the last thing I want is for our universities to emulate our much inferior pre-university system.