«Of all human endeavors, what is more
objective than math?»
Not exact matches
But, she pointedly adds, these «
objective» cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well
than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all - important
math section.
Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more
than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower
than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and
math students — with his larger
objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.
Gone are the performance events and the
math portfolios; back are the multiple - choice questions, more oriented to
objective answers
than are the open - response questions.