Whistleblower Hits College Board for SAT Changes

Whistleblower Hits College Board for SAT Changes | Heartlander Magazine:
"The former director of assessment design for College Board, the organization that owns the SAT and Advanced Placement tests, is alleging its SAT rewrite has been riddled with shoddy work and public deceptions.
College Board released a rewritten SAT this spring.
Manuel Alfaro reveals, among other things:
My first assignment with the College Board was to review a draft of the test specifications for the redesigned SAT.
The document had been created by two of David Coleman’s cronies, two authors of the Common Core. … My instructions were to rubberstamp the selection of standards and to rewrite the standard descriptions to make them unrecognizable, so that no one could tell they were Common Core.
More:
The College Board tells the public, content advisory committee members, and clients that operational items [questions students answer on real tests] are revised only in the RAREST of occasions.
Facts, however, show that a large percentage of operational items on each form (often greater than 50%) are extensively revised/rewritten.
And no, I’m not talking about adding a missing comma here, fixing a typo there, or changing the standard alignment.
Sometimes the revised items are completely different than the version that was pretested..."