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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m another poster with wretched eye sight who thinks of accommodations as analogous to eyeglasses.  That said, I think time-pressured standardized tests that don’t cover material as difficult as that presented in many high schools are a poor way of evaluating/ranking kids for college.  [/quote]

Er..it isn’t. You have a choice to wear them or not. What if you weren’t given a choice while others who gamed the system were? Would u be happy? Would u think it is fair? [/quote]

You ignored  the second half of what I wrote.  I don’t think speed should be what we’re testing in this context (just as I don’t think vision is what we should be testing on a reading exam).  So I’d remove time pressure generally.  But that’s a less profitable model ....[/quote]

I think processing speed is a perfectly appropriate thing to measure for college admissions. I don't think it's the only thing that matters, but it is a legitimate metric of academic capability. [/quote]

Not within these kind of parameters or wrt these kinds of tasks.  In college, students can put in widely varying amounts of time on the same assignment.  And what’s generally being tested isn’t speed but depth of knowledge and nuance (and/or ability to bring knowledge to bear in solving a problem or understanding a situation).  Answering multiple choice questions quickly and accurately isn’t really a good measure of a student’s ability to do that kind of work.  
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Well, then that's the college's choice.  And as long as tests are timed, processing speed is absolutely relevant.  Why else would there ever be timed tests?  You may disagree that processing speed is important; but the rest of the world thinks it is.  [/quote]

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