Technical Problems Cause Errors in SAT Test Scores

[caligirl]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/education/08sat.html


About 4,000 students who took the SAT last October received test scores that were lower than they should have been — some by as much as 100 points — because of technical problems in the scoring process, the College Board said yesterday.

The College Board, which administers the SAT, said it had begun to notify college admissions offices, high school counselors and affected students this week in letters and in e-mail messages, and expected to complete the process by Thursday. It also said that it planned to return registration fees and charges for sending test scores to colleges to the students whose scores were in error.





My son did his in March last year, no worries here. Looks like the problem was in a central scoring place in TEXAS!
Don't know for sure but thats the talk at a college website.

[Wilms]

1. Just another reason why OpScans are a scary way to count votes.

Here's a link to the AP story if you're not signed up with the NYT.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701331.html

[Dogmudgeon]

2. It's 2006. Why are we still using the *S*tupid-*A*ssed *T*est?

Think about it: You go to college to get education, not to prove you already have it.

Educational testing has one use and one use alone -- diagnostics. Period. There's no other damn use for it.

Typically, when I make such a sweeping statement, I qualify it by adding "Of course, I could be wrong." But not when it comes to something like educational testing.

--p!