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This is linking it to covid, as the students that passed the ACT this year had the pandemic in their first year. There is also a moratorium on admissions at th
by dmbche 3y ago
This is linking it to covid, as the students that passed the ACT this year had the pandemic in their first year.
There is also a moratorium on admissions at the moment and the ACT is not mandatory for the first time - which might skew results.
Edit0: This seems to not be the case for all states
Edit1: Some schools have a moratorium - I misread.
- touisteur 3y agoThe second one is pretty darn important as context! If the incentive to excel on this test is lower, even if it's the same for high achievers, might easily move the mean and median.
- nordsieck 3y agoIt'd typically have the opposite effect. If a test isn't mandatory then people who don't think they'll do well on it tend not to take it at all.
- WillPostForFood 3y agoThere are 6-7 states that mandate all their high school students take the ACT. The article mentions Hawaii. It would be helpful to see the numbers just for those states. Edit: Just checked a couple states that had 90%+ participation, and the decline seems to hold. Alabama 2017: 19.2 Alabama 2022: 18.0 Wisconsin 2017: 20.6 Wisconsin 2022: 19.4 Wyoming 2017: 20.2 Wyoming 2022: 19.2
- touisteur 3y agoThanks for filling my lack of knowledge on the mandatory-ness of the test and going the extra mile and crosschecking the dataset. Grateful.
- stonogo 3y agoThe article mentions one school -- Caltech -- that is not requiring ACT scores right now. Where are you getting a moratorium on admissions out of that? They're still admitting students.