Alfaro’s latest post (June 9) is really troubling.
He says that up to 1/3 of real test questions are experimental questions that have not yet been externally screened and that potentially contain serious flaws. Students who encounter flawed experimental questions may lose a lot of time and become flustered, and this in turn can impact performance on real questions. At least on the old test, the experimental questions were in a separate section.
In addition, he writes “about 200 hundred items were sent to the Content Advisory Committee for review. Their feedback was scathing. One committee member wrote an 11-page document letting the College Board know that these were the worst items he had ever seen.”
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Shouldn’t the media follow up on these serious accusations? Reuters? NY Times? Anyone?