New SAT Scores Sow Confusion -Washington Post article

evergreen5
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:57:08 +0000

No mention whatsoever of controversy over the accuracy of the conversion chart, the new percentiles that were recently released, etc. Really, very little journalism in my opinion.

The College Board discourages comparisons, calling this year’s results a new baseline.

David Coleman, president of the College Board, acknowledged that the transition has caused misunderstandings. “By next year, we’ll turn the page and this period of some confusion will be over,” he said.

Coleman “discourages comparisons” while comparisons are the entire point of the test. Indeed, we will need to wait one more year. Feeling fortunate that I do not have a senior…

It doesn’t sound as though Coleman will be releasing a new concordance table based on the 2017 percentiles, does it? It sounds like he’s hoping this will all just go away if we wait a year.