{"id":3181,"date":"2019-04-11T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:36:53","slug":"a-new-way-to-measure-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/a-new-way-to-measure-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way to Measure Student Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3182\" style=\"width: 788px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3182\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/video-game-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/video-game-blog.jpg 788w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/video-game-blog-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/video-game-blog-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Could a video game ever replace standardized testing\u2019s role in college admission?<\/p>\n<p>Enter 27-year-old Rebecca Kantar and Imbellus Inc., her start-up that aims to reinvent testing.<\/p>\n<p>Imbellus wasn\u2019t started with the recent bribery scandal in mind, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-03-19\/a-harvard-dropout-s-plan-to-fix-college-admissions-with-video-games\">Kantar told <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em><\/a> that it is \u201ccheatproof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rather than a multiple-choice test, Imbellus has created a digital assessment that looks and works like a video game. It puts users in a simulated natural environment and tracks the users\u2019 decision-making techniques, capabilities, and process. Every simulation is unique.<\/p>\n<p>Kantar hopes to show colleges and universities that measuring the decision-making process is a better predictor of student success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an aptitude problem\u2014it\u2019s a practice problem. They aren\u2019t practicing the right kind of thinking,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-03-19\/a-harvard-dropout-s-plan-to-fix-college-admissions-with-video-games\">she said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kantar plans to begin giving the test to high schoolers this year and hopes to test 100,000 students by the year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less about who does and does not get into Harvard. Yeah, that matters. It\u2019s a topic,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s secondary to changing the default settings of the education-to-employment system so that it works better for all kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a video game ever replace standardized testing\u2019s role in college admission? Enter 27-year-old Rebecca Kantar and Imbellus Inc., her start-up that aims to reinvent testing. Imbellus wasn\u2019t started with the recent bribery scandal in mind, but Kantar told Bloomberg Businessweek that it is \u201ccheatproof.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","category-college-readiness","category-standardized-testing"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Pj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}