College board to offer new test.THE SAT, PSAT PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test PSAT Puget Sound Action Team PSAT Particulate Source Apportionment Technology PSAT Predicted Site Acquisition Table PSAT Princeton South Asian Theatrics PSAT Pacific Situation Assessment Team (DoD) , SAT SUBJECT tests, ACT and Advanced Placement exams Advanced Placement examinations are taken each May by students at participating Canadian, American, and international educational institutions. The tests are the culmination of year-long AP courses. represent a formidable battery of tests that many high school students take as they prepare for college. Now the College Board. which owns the SAT and other standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. assessments, has debuted one more. The new test, called ReadiStep, is targeted for eighth-graders and is intended to help prepare them for rigorous high school courses and college. College Board officials are calling it an instructional and diagnostic tool and say it will have "nothing to do with college admissions." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But others aren't so sure. Critics say kids are tested enough as it is, and that the new test will succeed only in accelerating the college admissions arms race and forcing it on ever-younger children. "Who needs yet another precollege standardized exam when there is already a pre-SAT and the SAT test itself?" says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, a nonpartisan non·par·ti·san adj. Based on, influenced by, affiliated with, or supporting the interests or policies of no single political party: a nonpartisan commission; nonpartisan opinions. group pushing for making standardized tests A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] optional for college admissions. The new exam, designed to be completed within two hours and divided into three multiple-choice sections of critical reading, writing skills and math, will be available to schools next fall. |
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