I haven't heard of removing sections (/topics?) from the SAT. I really hope that if that is true, it is due to validity-data, not capitalistic desires to improve its "public image" at the expense of testing integrity. Is it along the lines of reacting to the worsening of children's reading and writing abilities?
To the electronic-enabled questions. That was already standard in for example the GRE - though when I took it, you still had to come into a testing location. The psychometric idea tends to be, among other reasons, that rather than rewarding random guesses on all the visible items, if there is evidence of struggling with a certain difficulty of items, the test taker is taken down a lower difficulty avenue (which should have mechanisms for returning to higher difficulties based on performance) which also carries less score-value and potentially less items. I'm not certain that this is how the SAT is now working, but that is what the testing-precedent would be.
I haven't heard of removing sections (/topics?) from the SAT. I really hope that if that is true, it is due to validity-data, not capitalistic desires to improve its "public image" at the expense of testing integrity. Is it along the lines of reacting to the worsening of children's reading and writing abilities?
To the electronic-enabled questions. That was already standard in for example the GRE - though when I took it, you still had to come into a testing location. The psychometric idea tends to be, among other reasons, that rather than rewarding random guesses on all the visible items, if there is evidence of struggling with a certain difficulty of items, the test taker is taken down a lower difficulty avenue (which should have mechanisms for returning to higher difficulties based on performance) which also carries less score-value and potentially less items. I'm not certain that this is how the SAT is now working, but that is what the testing-precedent would be.
Hi BennyBobDixson, look at the thread with my original comment because others have responded with good helpful responses.