Polysyllabic | Ruminations on grammar, linguistics, standardized tests, and anything else that strik

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Ruminations on grammar, linguistics, standardized tests, and anything else that strikes my fancy Ruminations on grammar, philology, standardized testing, and anything else that strikes my fancy Apparently, the site was down for a while without my noticing, for which I apologize. My hosting company recently upgraded the Perl version on its servers, which made some of the code in version of Drupal I use obsolete. As a result, the whole site crashed in the most ugly way possible. On top of that, I've been extremely busy recently and hadn't been checked on things in some time (much longer than I should). I normally rely on notifications to let me know when things need attention, but of course since the whole site was down, that wasn't happening either. As students came out of the SAT on the East Coast yesterday, many hit the online forums devoted to discussing the test to discuss questions. And even before the West-Coast students had left their exam rooms, it became evident that the form most of them were given was actually one that had been leaked online months earlier. Multiple students reported that they had practiced on this very test. How serious is this situation? Very.Topic:SAT I can't tell you how many students I've heard utter some variation of the following: "I took a practice test and my parents flipped out at how low the score was. I'm taking the test in [exceedingly close month], and I have to raise my score by at least [absurdly large amount]. I really need to raise my score fast."Topic:Test Prep College Board responded yesterday to the #rescoreJuneSAT complaints with a FAQ page. It is a document which has been very carefully worded, presumably by PR professionals. It makes technically accurate statements while dodging the serious substance of the complaints.Topic:PsychometricsSAT Reddit and Twitter have been in an uproar about the results from the June 2018 SAT. Many students are upset that missing only a handful of questions has dropped their scores precipitously, and have been expressing their outrage with the hastag #rescorejunesat.Topic:PsychometricsSAT In my last post, I argued that the SAT essay might be inappropriately difficult for its intended purposes and that floor effects make it essentially worthless for distinguishing among lower-ability students. In this post, I'm going to argue that the SAT essay score appears similarly unhelpful for distinguishing among high-ability students.Topic:SAT

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