college board to improve sat scanning

Many of you have heard about (and a small percentage of you may have been affected by) the re-reporting of scores from the October 2005 administration of the SAT. (If you were affected by this, the College Board has already contacted you with details.) The re-reporting of scores occurred because of a technical problem related to answer sheets and scanning. To ensure that this problem does not happen again, the College Board (through their vendor, Pearson Educational Measurement) will:

Scan each answer sheet twice rather than once.
Improve software to identify any answer sheet expansion that might occur due to humidity.
Ensure that all answer sheets are acclimated before scanning to eliminate any possibility of a humidity impact.

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Posted: 5/3/2006

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