SAT Snafu
Tomorrow morning hundreds of thousands of students will sit for the April 1st SAT.
These students will put their faith in a test and a testing process that have come under intense scrutiny in the last few weeks.
By now many of you know the specific details of the College Board’s scoring snafu on the October 8th SAT. According to Pearson Educational Measurement, the company responsible for processing the tests, excessive moisture content compromised the scoring process. Intensive rain increased the moisture content and thickness of the answer sheets, causing the tests to improperly align, and resulting in erroneously low SAT scores for 4,600 high school students, roughly 1% of the 495,000 students who sat for the October test. Not only did this tarnish the reputation of the College Board and damage its credibility, but it also brought into question the very integrity and fairness of the SAT test.
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