Peter Greene contacted the SAT whistle blower, Manuel Alfaro, and learned that he was a college classmate of Jason Zimba, who wrote the Common Core math standards.
Peter writes:
The short form of Alfaro’s story– the College Board has knowingly lied about using best practices in developing the “revamped” SAT, and in the process of selling the SAT as a state-wide and/or graduation exam, will be lying some more. And it would appear that even this stripped down, cut corners approach isn’t letting the College Board get tests written fast enough, for as Schneider found poking around Reddit, the same form of the SAT was given in March and in June.
Alfaro is still out there and still writing. He says that the story has “more plot twists than the Da Vinci Code.” It seems certain that those plot twists are not good news for the College Board. Go read some more about the full extent of Coleman’s fraud. Stay tuned, and pass the word.
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This is VERY BIG NEWS and revealing of what goes on at the College Board and ETS. It strikes me as fraud, not just cheating. But we’ll have to leave that up the legal experts.
Parents and students applying to colleges should be justifiably angry. And so should colleges that use SAT scores in their admission process. Some students got unvetted questions. Others got a second look at the questions. The test results are completely unreliable and probably need to be thrown out.
My prediction: at least one class action lawsuit and lots of demands for refunds. One lawsuit will come from families that paid for the SAT, only to discover that it warped their kids’ chances for admission. Perhaps there will be another lawsuit by colleges that paid for College Board/ETS help in analyzing test results. Regardless, I don’t see the outcome as greater transparency. It’s a total mess, and cheating/fraud by Coleman et al could spell the end of the SAT as we know it.
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I suspect this sort of stuff was happening at College Board long before David Coleman arrived — and will continue long after he is gone.
The people who claim otherwise are just fooling themselves — and trying to fool the public.
In my opinion, you have to be completely lacking in any sort of professional ethics to work at a place like college Board because the entire thing is a scam.
No legitimate scientist would work at College Board.
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I’ve connected with Mr. Alfaro, he recently posted to the Education LinkedIn Group I manage on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/699207
Perhaps you should interview him for your blog?
It reminds me of the stuff that was pulled with Common Core standards and the “International Benchmarking” requirements: http://pioneerinstitute.org/news/wanted-internationally-benchmarked-standards-in-english-mathematics-and-science/
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