The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a leading education association, has attacked boys again in
another attempt to decrease the percentage of males graduating from higher
education.
Its latest effort is to urge faculty to
replace multiple choice tests with essay exams. As males do better on multiple choice tests than essays, and females
score significantly better on essays than males, the impact would be to further
bias grading against males, widening the GPA gender gap.
Why males do better on multiple choice tests
and females do better on essays is a function of neurology and has been
documented for decades. In a follow up
interview with Wm. Draves, College Board testing officials confirmed there is
“tons of research and evidence” that multiple choice tests are a legitimate
form of testing.
The AAC&U recommendations come from a study
of only 300 employers, none of whom were reported to have any knowledge or
expertise in testing. Asked to provide
the survey questions, the AAC&U refused. The lead researcher, f
Peter Hart Associates, initially offered to provide the survey questions, and
then ominously fell silent online and did not follow up on her offer.
Boys currently learn as much as girls in
higher education, but receive much worse grades, are flunked at a higher rate,
and forced out without graduating at a higher rate than females. While males have
the same level of academic achievement as females, colleges allow a decreasing
percentage of graduates to be male, now below 40%. Colleges have kept males as
a minority of graduates for almost 30 years now. The AAC&U gender policy is a major cause of
the scientist shortage, food supply veterinarian shortage, and computer
scientist shortage.