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Dumbing down the SAT bodes poorly for education
The College Board's new SAT format reduces reading passages to social media-length excerpts, responding to declining literacy and student preferences, amid a 17% reliance on whole texts in grades 3-8.
- Recently, the College Board redesigned the SAT, replacing 500- to 750-word passages with 25- to 150-word excerpts with one question each and allowing a calculator for all math questions.
- As in-person exams became impractical, hundreds of schools dropped testing requirements and today more than 80% remain test-optional, while College Board executives seek to make the SAT the test students prefer.
- Little more than a third of 12th graders are proficient in reading, and 26% say they never read novels outside school, while only 17% of third- through eighth-grade teachers primarily rely on whole texts and a quarter mostly use excerpts.
- Dumbing down the SAT risks harming students' preparedness, and critics say it serves no one well; the College Board could reemphasize deep reading and consider reducing Advanced Placement exams costs to align with the SAT .
- Colleges and universities have long relied on standardized tests to filter applicants, and a nationwide test-prep industry arose to help students prepare, while university administrators should support tough professors rather than placate undergraduates.
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Editorial: Dumbing down SAT bad move for education
The SAT is billed as “a great way to find out how prepared students are for college.” If that’s true, recent changes to its format offer an unflattering assessment of the country’s aspiring scholars. Colleges and universities have long used standardized tests to filter applicants. The SAT, published by the nonprofit College Board, was for decades considered the preeminent one. A nationwide industry arose to help kids prepare for the test and boo…
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Dumbing down the SAT bodes poorly for education
The SAT is billed as “a great way to find out how prepared students are for college.” If that’s true, recent changes to its format offer an unflattering assessment of the country’s aspiring scholars.
·Helena, United States
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