OMG! A New Standardized Test is Unveiled

A new standardized test for eight-graders was recently unveiled by the College Board, the owners of the SAT exam. It's called the Readistep and is really a pre, pre-PSAT exam, and is garnering quite a bit of discussion and criticism from many sources. Listed below are two recent articles worth reading. The first one is a hysterically funny take on parenting published in the New York TImes:

FASHION & STYLE   | December 4, 2008
Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy:  My Child's Fate, All Laid Out by 13
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
The new ReadiStep test is testing a mother's ability to choke her own hysteria.


The other article is posted on Fairtest.org:

FairTest on College Board's New "READISTEP" Test | FairTest

Oct 22, 2008 ... Jesse Mermell, Executive Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) continued, “The ‘ReadiStep’ is designed to lock ...
www.fairtest.org/fairtest-college-boards-new-readistep-test - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Google lists more information and other articles about this new test.


 
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