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Are the test scores you refer to based on learned skills, or on intelligence? If the former, you could try giving the students a test like the Raven's Progress
by bokonist 18y ago
Are the test scores you refer to based on learned skills, or on intelligence? If the former, you could try giving the students a test like the Raven's Progressive Matrices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices It's a test of intelligence that does not require the student to be able to read, know math, or possess any cultural knowledge. It might be useful for finding bright students who were just not brought up in an environment that encouraged learning.
If that doesn't work, I suppose the thing to do is give the scholarship to the highest performing student who could not otherwise afford the tuition.
- markessien 18y agoI certainly like the idea. All that one has to do is now somehow combine it with a social factor where we can filter children without hurting their feelings. I.e, a student from a wealthy family who scores high deserves special attention, but giving a scholarship does not help the student, because the family can afford the tuition anyways.
- bd 18y agoMaybe you could split "reward" into two parts: a) some award that will be prestigious by itself (by being labeled as one of the top kids from the school); and b) financial help available for winners of a) with family income under X. Isn't it how US system works? Getting high SAT will get you to Harvard (prestige part of the reward), and if your family has income under $60K, your tuition is dropped (financial part of the reward selectively applied to poorer students).