Let the Litigation Begin

A legal team that has won millions of dollars in the past over errors in standardized testing on Friday served notice that it would file a class action suit against the College Board and Pearson Educational Measurement over errors in scoring October’s SAT.
Long-time critics of the SAT said that the lawsuit — and more that are expected to follow — could provide new information about how the SAT is scored, how vulnerable the test may be to errors, and how the College Board manages the process. Officials of the College Board and of Pearson, which handles the scoring, declined to comment, citing policies against talking about litigation. The College Board’s Web site, however, includes a general statement about the scoring errors and efforts to correct them.

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