Required reading for anyone following the SAT:
www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-coleman/
This article is from yesterday. Not sure how it wasn’t posted on CC until now. I was too lazy to do it yesterday.
Question: If the SAT is going to possibly modify the SAT again, does that make the current 6 released tests somewhat worthless?
Thanks for posting. I would hope that they would take their time this go round if the SAT is indeed modified. I know that the current talk is of getting rid of the Common Core, but I would imagine that wouldn’t be quite so easy. Lots of ifs here!
Have any of you professional SAT tutors out there noticed any changes yet in the SATs your students have taken since the first sitting in March this year? I wonder if they have already begun tweaking the exam.
Perhaps the most disturbing point in the article is that 400 questions were leaked, reducing the inventory of questions available to make tests with, leading to test questions already being recycled.
Its all disturbing. The cocky guy who has never led a large organization (after years in academia, his job included leading a company of 21 - instead of thousands at CB) comes in with a ‘beautiful’ and ‘brilliant’ idea and decides to set a date for implementation without regard for quality and realistic time frames that his team could actually do this in. He hitched his wagon to his idea (common core) and was blind to everything and everyone.
What he should have/could have focused on was electronic testing or some other method to stop the cheating.
Just another narcissist leader
Um, online testing would be even more susceptible to cheating. To get rid of cheating (at least on the most pernicious scale) means completely ceasing the practice of test recycling.