Part 2 : Score Discrepancies An historically narrow gap between sophomore and junior performance does not seem credible and leads to questions about how scoring, scaling, and weighting were performed and…
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Part 3: Lowered Benchmark The dramatic lowering of the college and career readiness benchmark for the "verbal" portion of the PSAT and SAT calls for a deeper examination and reveals potential structural problems with…
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In February 2013, not many 8th graders would have been paying attention to the initial College Board announcements about overhauls of the PSAT and SAT. Those 8th graders are now juniors, and the…
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Several members of the Compass leadership team — Bruce Reed, Matt Steiner, and I — spent February 19-20 in Newport Beach attending the College Board’s annual Western Regional Forum. We make it…
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