FairTest
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The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, also known as FairTest, is an American educational organizaton which "advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. FairTest also works to end the misuses and flaws of testing practices that impede those goals."[1] They also publish a list of SAT optional schools.[2]
FairTest is an "organization which campaigns "against the SAT. They allege that it consistently under-predicts the performance of women, African-Americans, people whose first language isn't English and generally anyone who's not a good test-taker." [3] Fairtest maintains a list of SAT optional schools which has "a strict definition of what constitutes a non-SAT school. Inclusion on the list requires that the college be an accredited, bachelor's degree-granting institution at which a large chunk or all of the applicants aren't required to submit standardized test scores."[4]
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- Information about the organization
- Alphabetical listing of SAT optional schools
- Listing of SAT optional schools by State.
- SATs Not for Everyone, But Reality for Most -NPR
- College Board Asks Group Not to Post Test Analysis - New York Times
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