Officials Say Scoring Errors for SAT Were Understated
New York Times -
Education Section
March 9, 2006
by Karen W. Arenson
A day after the College Board notified colleges that it had misreported the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT exam in October, an official of the testing organization disclosed that some of the errors were far larger than initially suggested.
With college counselors and admissions officials scrambling to take a second look at student scores in the final weeks before they mail out acceptances and rejections, Chiara Coletti, the College Board's vice president for public affairs, said that 16 students out of the 495,000 who took the October exam had scores that should have been more than 200 points higher...
...Some college counselors said that students they advised were very upset by the problems.
"Scores are absurdly important," said Ned Johnson, a consultant in the Washington area who works with students applying to college. He added, "One hundred points could easily make or break a kid."
Mr. Johnson said "the initial reaction was utter stupefaction, disbelief, anger." The College Board said Tuesday that it received the first indication that there might be problems after two students asked that it re-examine their scores in late December...
March 9, 2006
by Karen W. Arenson
A day after the College Board notified colleges that it had misreported the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT exam in October, an official of the testing organization disclosed that some of the errors were far larger than initially suggested.
With college counselors and admissions officials scrambling to take a second look at student scores in the final weeks before they mail out acceptances and rejections, Chiara Coletti, the College Board's vice president for public affairs, said that 16 students out of the 495,000 who took the October exam had scores that should have been more than 200 points higher...
...Some college counselors said that students they advised were very upset by the problems.
"Scores are absurdly important," said Ned Johnson, a consultant in the Washington area who works with students applying to college. He added, "One hundred points could easily make or break a kid."
Mr. Johnson said "the initial reaction was utter stupefaction, disbelief, anger." The College Board said Tuesday that it received the first indication that there might be problems after two students asked that it re-examine their scores in late December...
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