http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-security/
Somehow it keeps getting worse.
Laughable
Therein lies the problem.
Somehow Reuters keeps managing to write more hogwash.
So let me get this straight: Some nefarious individual within the confines of the College Board itself just happened to have managed to steal highly confidential test items for the redesigned exam and of course, this shadowy criminal chose, of all people, to send these contents only to Reuters, huh?
Laughable indeed!
The article doesn’t specify that the source is within the College Board, nor does it specify that the test items were sent only to Reuters. Once again your “critique” is fatuous, @markmeyes , and the fact that you seem to have joined CC solely to criticize Reuters and defend the ACT and CB further erodes your credibility.
What was once released on net will find a way to be widely distributed.
How will this affect future test takers?
It’s unknown at this point, @YoLolololol , but I think the hope is that this sort of thing pressures the CB to (A) stop recycling tests and (B) tighten up test security. If those things happen (and I admit I’m not holding my breath, but I’m a cynical veteran), then test takers will benefit from taking a fair, secure test on a level playing field.
A Tale of Two Tests:
It was the theft of the SAT, and it was the theft of the ACT.
And behind it all was a Reuters correspondent.
No, the thefts and cheating–and ACT/CB policies that allow those things to happen–have been going on for a decade.
The ACT licensed and contracted with private test-prep centers and then had those centers also working as test locations.
The CB has recycled tests for years and years, turning a blind eye to the cheating and doing nothing to stop it, and is now shown to have very poor test security as well.
And you’re trying to blame top reporters, including a Pulitzer winner? Reuters is doing everyone a service here by holding the test companies’ feet to the fire. And you’re an apologist who–once again!–literally only posts on CC in these threads and only to defend the indefensible test companies’ crooked and incompetent policies.
You may not be a shill, but you’re checking off all the boxes, @markmeyes
It is a well-known fact in many inner circles that Reuters is an organization whose executives harbor strong anti-Chinese sentiments.
So while, as the poster above mentioned, cheating [in East Asia] has been going on for well over a decade, it is no mere coincidence that only when Chinese involvement in the ongoing cheating scandals became widely publicized did certain individuals at Reuters wet their pants and proceed to order its reporters to indiscriminately undermine the integrity of Chinese students and launch slanderous attacks against any and all educational institutions in China they even remotely suspected of being involved in any type of cheating ring.
Look at any of these articles and notice the overwhelming emphasis on the increasingly alarming number of Chinese students who are allegedly cheating, not only on the ACT or the SAT, but in every other aspect of the U.S. admissions process.
A devious political agenda masked as some sort of anti-cheating crusade.
So whose feet do we really need to hold to the fire, eh?
Where is my tinfoil hat?
This isn’t a well-known fact. It’s known as “poisoning the well,” in rhetorical parlance.
@MotherOfDragons I’m still wearing mine!! I did eat the candy cane though;-)
Is anyone having their rising senior switch from the SAT
Sorry that was cut off: Is anyone having their rising senior switch from the upcoming October SAT to the ACT because of this?
You think the ACT is untainted?
My D HAS to take the SAT to get a “confirming” score in order to make NMF. She wishes she could be done with testing (ACT was 35) but we are looking at some schools that give NMF aid. I hope things go smoothly
All these reports or allegations of cheating are grossly exaggerated, if not completely fabricated.
Go ahead and have your daughter take either the SAT or the ACT. Neither score will be cancelled nor questioned, unless, of course, there was actual cheating involved, not of the laughable conspiratorial sort being alleged by Reuters.
In fact, I wonder what ridiculous headline Reuters has slated for its next article:
“EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump admits he cheated on the SAT with the help of the Chinese!”
You keep saying things like this, but you have no evidence and Reuters has a great deal of it. You’ve squandered your credibility.