On May 19, 2020, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (“Fairtest”) and several individuals filed suit against the College Board, Educational Testing Service (ETS), and 50 individuals in a “nationwide and California class action complaint” related to College Board’s et al. botching of the 2020 administration of its Advanced Placement (AP) tests. Via […]
The College Board is offering its Advanced Placement (AP) tests in an abbreviated, roughly-45-minute formats that students complete remotely and submit according to the College Board’s schedule. The first round of testing began May 11, 2020. In keeping with the College Board’s established history of ineptness as a high-stakes testing entity (see here and here […]
On December 10, 2019, an Illinois parent identified as “Mark S.” filed a class action lawsuit against College Board for soliciting and selling personal information from minor students taking College Board’s standardized tests. The 38-page complaint, filed in US District Court, District of Northern Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges the following (from the introduction of the […]
The College Board is a bumbling operation. According to the College Board’s “SAT Test Closings” web page, the August 24, 2019, SAT administration was canceled at Franklin High School in Seattle and was supposed to be “made up” on Saturday, September 07, 2019. On the same page, the College Board states, “Test center closings for the […]
The College Board is actually a nonprofit entity (EIN 13-1623965), but don’t let that fool you. The money is a-flowing, and for College Board’s top admin, testing is turning out to be quite the lucrative racket. Let’s just consider some info from the College Board’s 2016 tax form. Total revenue in 2016 was $916M, just […]
The College Board apparently chose to use its October 2017 SAT test from Asia as the August 2018 SAT test in the USA– after releasing the test and answers in Asia following the October 2017 administration of the test. So, the question of the test being leaked appears technically incorrect. What appears to have happened […]
The College Board’s June 2018 administration of the SAT continues to draw organized criticism. As noted in my August 04, 2018, post, a number of June 2018 SAT test takers have noted receiving lower scores despite getting fewer items incorrect than on previous administrations of the test. Some have even started this petition to rescore […]
I have no faith in the College Board under David Coleman. Over the years, I have written about repeated score reporting delays, hastily recycled tests, ineptness at accommodating injured students, the leaking of SAT items to the press, Coleman’s reluctance to address SAT problems, including SAT bias against females, and Coleman’s using the Parkland, FL, school […]
On February 21, 2018, Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Ed posted the following tweet featuring the text of an email written by College Board president, David Coleman, in reference to the February 14, 2018, shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida: This letter from David Coleman has prompted major criticism from […]
The piece featured below is an important one given our nation’s over-sized, under-questioned reliance on standardized testing as The neutral, unbiased means of tagging student potential and worth. At the forefront of the testing game are the ACT and SAT. School systems across the country are pouring unprecedented amounts of money in paying for their high […]
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