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...same time, every year fewer and fewer colleges and universities are requiring the SAT or ACT - more than 775 schools have now made scores optional for admission consideration. ReadiStep is "a cynical marketing ploy," says Jesse Mermell, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), one of the College Board's most vocal opponents. "[It] is designed to lock eighth graders into the SAT series of exams before they can consider the increasingly popular alternatives...
Monty Neill, Ed.D., Co-Executive Director, FairTest, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...
Robert Schaeffer, director of Fairtest, a non-profit organization focusing on the fair administration of standardized tests, said that he is concerned that college admissions decisions have been affected by the scoring error...
...This was never a backlash against standards, but it's always been about the tests themselves," says Monty Neill of FairTest, an advocacy group in Cambridge, Mass. Indeed, when the Public Agenda survey asked parents specifically about whether it's wrong for a child's grade promotion or graduation to hinge on just one exam, 78% concurred...
...shouldn't come as any wonder that there are going to be people who will find a creative way of cheating." Crew argues that such incidents do not mean the tests should be abandoned, though others disagree. "The country has gone test crazy," says Robert Schaeffer, a director at FairTest, an organization that monitors standardized testing. "The more you ratchet up the pressure on these Trivial Pursuit types of exams, the more cheating you will...