Test Companies Lower 'Flags' On College-Entrance Exams
Students with disabilities who need extra time when taking either of the nation's two major college-entrance exams will no longer be "flagged," beginning in the 2003-04 school year. Advocates for the disabled regard the practice as something of an academic scarlet letter.
Under the practice, the score reports of students who received more time on the SAT have featured an asterisk indicating the tests were given through "nonstandard administration." But the College Board, which owns the SAT, agreed to end the practice under a July 15 settlement with advocates for people with disabilities and a man who objected having his score singled out in that manner.
Immediately following the settlement, ACT officials, who flagged tests by marking them "special," said they were re-examining their own policies. Then, 11 days later, they decided to follow the SAT's lead...
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