The deluge continues:
An additional 393 students who took the SAT in October earned higher scores than were initially reported to them, bringing the total number of test takers who received incorrectly low scores to 4,411, the College Board announced on Wednesday.In a written statement, the College Board said it learned last weekend that its test-scanning contractor, Pearson Educational Measurement, had not "fully evaluated" 27,000 of the total 495,000 exams from October. Two weeks ago, the board said it already had rescanned nearly all of the tests and found approximately 4,000 students whose actual scores were higher than those first reported. After reviewing the 27,000 tests that had not yet been "fully evaluated" this week, Pearson found another 375 students who had received falsely low scores.
Last week, the College Board announced that it had failed to include 1,600 exams in its initial review. After those answer sheets were rescanned, the board found an additional 18 students with falsely low scores, according to its statement on Wednesday. The board did not disclose the number of students who had received falsely high scores.
Problem is, admissions officers may be just as interested in falsely-high as falsely-low scores. And again, why was any public statement at all made before the entire pool of suspect exams had been fully evaluated?
Posted by kswygert at March 23, 2006 11:28 AM