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ACT revisions: smokescreen to hide flaws.(NEWSWATCH)
Minor variations in scores for the 1.3 million college-bound seniors who took the ACT admission test this year are just "a smokescreen designed to divert attention from the flaws of the test" according to the watchdog group FairTest.
Average scores in each category varied by less than one tenth of one point between the 2005 and 2006 versions.
"Reliance on standardized tests skews admissions and scholarship awards to children from the most affluent households," said FairTest public outreach director Robert Schaeffer. "Increasingly the ACT and SAT ...
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