The College Board COVID-Era AP Exam: Another Botch Job
The College Board is offering its Advanced Placement (AP) tests in an abbreviated, roughly-45-minute formats that students complete remotely and submit according to the College Board’s schedule. The first round of testing began May 11, 2020.
In keeping with the College Board’s established history of ineptness as a high-stakes testing entity (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here for examples), the organization once again has thousands of shocked and upset high school students and their parents suffering the consequences of having to rely on the College Board to competently deliver.
In the following tweet, the faceless College Board entity understates the gravity of those thousands of students who were unable to successfully upload their AP test responses to the College Board’s server.
The College Board assumed no responsibility and instead plays up a “99%” success rate as it vaguely blamed student browsers as “a primary cause”:
While more than 99% of students successfully submitted their AP Exam responses yesterday, some who didn't told us they had trouble cutting and pasting their responses. We took a closer look and found that outdated browsers were a primary cause of these challenges.
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In 2018-19, 2.8 million students took 5.1 million AP exams. So, the hidden failure in that “99% success rate” is that the “unsuccessful,” College Board-donwplayed, one percent of AP student test takers translates to thousands of students.
The numerous student and parent comments to the above tweet underscore the College Board’s reputation for testing ineptitude. For example, a number of CONTINUE READING: The College Board COVID-Era AP Exam: Another Botch Job | deutsch29