Can you blame students for sweating a little when they’re taking this thing?
The College Board (SAT test administrators) hired a consulting company to look into the matter, but didn’t release the report until a New York state senator threatened to subpoena executives from the non-profit group.
An article on Salon says that “The problems were blamed on excessive moisture on answer sheets,” and also “the report contains a number of technical recommendations for improving the scoring of so-called ‘marginal marks’. It also recommends that answer sheets continue to be double-scanned until new safeguards are in place.”
While these are interesting conclusions, I didn’t think they were severe enough to be kept a secret from the public. But it makes you wonder if there is anything they left out.
Admit it; we were all secretly hoping that this would spell the demise of the SATs. However, it just looks like they’re going to keep chugging along. Rats.
You can go download the report here.
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