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College Board changes
policy on untimed SAT
Lauren Hodge
Michigan Daily (U. Michigan)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U-WIRE) —
Universities will no longer be in
formed of applicants who received
extra time to take the Scholastic As
sessment Test or the American Col
lege Test because of learning disabil
ities. In the past, an asterisk was
placed next to the name of the stu
dent who took the SAT untimed.
The College Board, which owns the
SAT, will no longer flag students
who take the test untimed at the
start of the 2003-2004 school year.
This change occurred because of
a July 15 settlement where an appli
cant with a disability objected to
having his score singled out because
he required extra time. Immediate
ly following the settlement, ACT of
ficials who isolated tests by marking
them “special” said they would re
examine their own policies. Eleven
days later, officials decided to stop
flagging scores and imitated the
SAT’s policy of not identifying stu
dents with disabilities.
One student who requested to re
main anonymous said the practice is
beneficial because students will not
have to feel categorized by the aster
isk, something of an “academic scar
let letter,” for taking the test through
nonstandard administration.
ACT spokesman Ken Gullette
said, “We’d been watching the SAT
situation for some time and had
been evaluating our own policy. We
made our decision to end the prac
tice. We are all in the business to
make the tests as fair to everybody
as we can.”
Many students said they are wor
ried that admissions will now be
more competitive because higher
scores will be reported without
knowledge of untimed test takers.
Some students say it is quite simple
to ask a doctor or psychiatrist to
write a note on the basis of anxiety
attacks or attention deficit disorder
simply to get more time on the tests.
“The only difficult aspect of the
tests is the issue of time. If I were al
lowed more time, my score would
dramatically increase. What’s to say
that I don’t deserve some extra
time?” LSA sophomore Bryan
Sofen said.
LSA sophomore Joanna Lee said
the new settlement is advantageous
and necessary. “People shouldn’t
think about others’ scores. I think
students should focus on them
selves and their own scores. If this
helps to level the playing field for
students with disabilities, then I
think it is a good idea.”
According to The National Report
of 1997 College Bound Seniors,
22,441 of 1,105,403 college-bound
seniors who took the SAT indicated
on their application that they had a
learning disability. These students’
scores on both math and verbal
means of the SAT were vastly lower
(59-66 points) than those of stu
dents reporting no disability. The
math mean scores were 448 for
those reporting a disability and 514
for those without disabilities. The
verbal mean scores were 450 and
509 accordingly.
Gayle Bellafiore, a researcher for
the publication Teaching Excep
tional Children, said SAT scores of
students with learning disabilities
are significantly lower because of
the characteristics inherent within
the disability itself.
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