Trouble at the SAT's
Apparently, the SAT scoring issues reported at the beginning of March are worse than the College Board originally suggested. Now they're saying more than 4,400 test scores have been affected.
I feel bad for all those 17 and 18-year-olds, going through the stressful college application process, only to get dicked around by the College Board.
But I'm cracking up at the thought of all those admissions offices at all those colleges scrambling around because they put too much stock in standardized test scores.
A couple years ago, the SAT's took a stab at being more relevant by adding an essay portion of the test. But, apparently, scoring has more to do with length than quality. So a smart kid who can make his astute point in one hundred words gets a lower score than the dumbass who needs five hundred words to make the same point.
Hey, admissions offices! Take a page from my alma mater. Sarah Lawrence (Isn't That a Girl's) College no longer asks to see standardized test scores. They actually have an application process that allows admissions officers to get to know the students individually. Imagine that.
Stupid SAT's. I bet if the SAT's took the SAT's, they wouldn't even get the three hundred points for getting their name right.
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posted by Dan G @ 11:02 AM
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4 Comments:
Pearson has said the errors resulted in part from too much moisture when it scanned the answer sheets to be graded by machine. (NYT link)
Can you imagine the entire course of your life affected by "too much moisture"?
Well, I'm generally pretty humid, you know, sweating like a Gunderman and all, so my life is already affected by too much moisture.
Don't get me started on this one (says the guy with a degree in educational psychology and measurement).
Sarah Lawrence in the house, woo hoo, but that wasn't really the point of your blog blurb, so I would score low on the reading comprehension part of a standardized test, good thing I went to that "school" that doesn't give grades or heed test scores.
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