Rebecca Zwick is an American statistician and researcher in educational assessment and psychometrics.
Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions (Harvard University Press, 2017).
[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.
[3] Zwick 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.