The College Board and Disabilities Rights Advocates announce agreement to drop flagging from standardized tests. (Notices).(Brief Article)

The College Board and Disabilities Rights Advocates (DRA) announced that as of October 1, 2003, the College Board would discontinue the practice of identifying score reports on standardized tests taken by students who require extended test-taking time because of documented disabilities. Such special testing accommodations have been identified on the score report by the words nonstandard administration, a practice commonly referred to as flagging.

The decision to discontinue flagging stems from a 1999 lawsuit against the Educational Testing Service (ETS) that resulted in ETS's agreement to remove all flags from the score reports of ETS-administered tests that are not …