Major university association attacks boys again

 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.