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This is actually a good idea, but one could just use normal computers. The school has 30 PCs or so with an internet connection. All the same, you can't intervi

This is actually a good idea, but one could just use normal computers. The school has 30 PCs or so with an internet connection. All the same, you can't interview 1500 students over a webcam, and what can one learn in a 10 minute interview? It's like a job interview then, and they are a bit young for that... The best would be if there were some type of test that one could administer that does not show the same bias towards the wealthier students.

ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
I, of course, have never done this, but my hunch is that it should be easy to ask students questions that reveal some abilities. I am reminded of one of the studies cited in Gladwell's Blink about how you can thin-slice (speedily evaluate relative merit) a person's abilities in pretty diverse fields (speed-dating, classroom teaching) with only a 10 (or so) second video of the person. No test administered by classroom teachers can escape corruption, unless the teachers are themselves unaware of what constitutes a right answer.