Rebecca Zwick is an American statistician and researcher in educational assessment and psychometrics. She is a professor emeritus in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara[1] and the author of a book on university and college admission, Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions (Harvard University Press, 2017).[2]
Rebecca Zwick | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Education | |
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| Discipline | Statistics |
| Sub-discipline | psychometrics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Main interests | Educational assessment |
| Notable works | Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions (2017) |
Education and career
editZwick earned a master's degree in statistics from Rutgers University, and completed a Ph.D. in quantitative methods in education from the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
After postdoctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and twelve years with the Educational Testing Service, she joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 1996. She retired in 2010,[1] and returned to the Educational Testing Service as a Distinguished Presidential Appointee.[3]
Book
editZwick is in favor of the use of affirmative action to balance the gender and racial composition of colleges, and her book Who Gets In? shows that the use of standardized test scores in college admissions can have a similar effect: according to her book, simulated admission results based only on grades, without the use of standardized test scores, would admit many more women than men, and admit a larger number of Asian-American students in preference to students from other minorities. As her book describes, the use of standardized tests tends to counter these effects.[2]
Recognition
editIn 2012, Zwick was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Rebecca Zwick, Professor Emeritus, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, retrieved 2017-11-12
- ^ a b Reviews of Who Gets In?:
- Bella DePaulo (April 2017), Psychology Today, [1]
- Scott Jaschik (May 2017), Inside Higher Education, [2]
- Basil Smilke Jr. (May 2017), New York Journal of Books, [3]
- Jamaal Abdul-Alim (July 2017), Diverse Issues in Higher Education 34 (12), [4]
- ^ a b Author biography from 'Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-12