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Overview
Access to Opportunity Initiative
Changes to the SAT and Free Test Preparation for All
Making the SAT a Stronger Tool for Admission
Planning for Implementation
Higher Education and the Redesigned SATreg
The new Access to Opportunitytrade initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during h igh school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students Over time it is our goal that more students from diverse backgrounds will be prepared to succeed in college and will apply to a full range of schools
The SATreg is being redesigned to more closely reflect the core skills and knowledge that current research shows are essential for college readiness and success These changes will make it more useful for college admission more focused for Kndash12 teachers and clearer for students A new partnership with Khan Academy will provide free test preparation for students around the world mdash whether theyrsquore taking the current SAT or the redesigned SAT The first administration of the redesigned SAT will be in spring 2016
The SAT will continue to provide strong predictive validity while offering colleges more detailed profiles about studentsrsquo accomplishments and strengths to inform admission decisions It will also generate new more robust feedback for teachers and students to improve learning and instruction
Nearly 300 leaders from higher education institutions provided input on the communication and implementation planning for the redesigned SAT starting with these resources
Descriptions of changes to the SAT the ways that the SAT assesses writing and the scores
Plans to research predictive validity and information about concordance tables and when theyrsquoll be available
A toolkit of communications materials for use with students parents and campus colleagues
Timelines for operational implementation support and for changes coming 2014ndash2018
Safe Use Warning SAT scores should only be used in combination with other relevant information to make responsible decisions about students
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Training and Support
Changes to the SAT
Highlights
Regional workshops addressing revisions to the SAT and key implementation considerations are planned for mid-July through August 2014 Sign up for updates and wersquoll notify you when a session is scheduled in your region
For enrollment staff training on your campus contact your regional office to inquire about availability
Middle States Regional Office
Midwestern Regional Office
New England Regional Office
Southern Regional Office
Southwestern Regional Office
Western Regional Office
The changes wersquore making to the SAT will make it easier than ever for students to show colleges and universities their best work Wersquove outlined the major changes to the exam and how they will affect the higher education community
Students affectedThe first administration of the SAT will be in spring 2016 The first cohort of students to primarily take the redesigned SAT will be the entering class of 2017 However some students will take the current SAT before spring 2016 and then take the redesigned SAT later In those cases it is recommended that students send both scores to the colleges they apply to
Changes to content test designThe SAT is being redesigned to more closely reflect the skills and knowledge that current research tells us are most critical for college readiness and success The exam will require students to have a stronger command of fewer topics Get more details about the ways wersquore changing the SAT
Essay Students will write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a reading passage (source document) The essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission
Score scale and new score reportsThe SAT will be scored on a 400- to 1600-point scale (the essay score will be reported separately) Rich score reports for each test will provide new ways to evaluate a range of different applicants mdash from high achievers to students who may need remediation
Strong Research Base To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college An in-depth review of the evidence base research curriculum studies domain and sample questions will be made available by April 16
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Scores
Score Highlights
Deeper Insight into Studentsrsquo Skill Levels
Scores Reported by the Redesigned SAT
Composite Score
Area Scores
Test Scores
The score report for the redesigned SAT will provide admission officers a deeper profile of student readiness for college-level work The new report goes into greater detail than ever before making the redesigned SAT an even stronger admission tool
Herersquos an overview of SAT score changes
The SAT will have a 400- to 1600-point score scale
Scores for the Essay section will be reported separately
The redesigned exam will give credit for every correct response but will not deduct points for incorrect answers (rights-only scoring)
Rich score reports will provide a more detailed view of student achievement in specific skills
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus their future academic efforts This will also enable high-performing students to demonstrate their strengths and skill proficiency
Students will be given two area scores one in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and one in Math Each will be reported on a 200- to 800-point scale Students will also receive a separate score for the Essay section
In addition rich score reports will provide students with separate scores for the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test as well as with more insight into specific skills
The SAT has been redesigned to provide more information by reporting more scores than ever before The redesigned SAT will report a composite score area (domain) scores test scores cross-test scores and subscores These
ldquoInsight Scoresrdquo reported from the redesigned SAT are intended to provide additional information about student achievement and readiness that will convey a cohesive profile of student readiness The provisional list of scores subject to further research is described below
The redesigned SAT will report a composite score that will be the sum of two area scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and (2) Math The SAT composite score will be reported on a scale ranging from 400 to 1600 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and not be factored into the composite score
The redesigned SAT will report two area (domain) scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing which will be the sum of the Reading Test score and Writing and Language Test score and (2) Math which will be the Math Test score Each of the two area scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 200 to 800 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and will not be factored into the area scores
The redesigned SAT will report three test scores each on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 (1) Reading Test score (2) Writing and Language Test score (3)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Cross-Test Scores
Subscores
The Redesigned SAT Insight Score Summary
Math Test score The fourth test the Essay will be reported separately Current plans call for the Essay component to report three scores a decision that will be reassessed pending the outcome of further research
The SAT will be the anchor of a vertically aligned longitudinal assessment system that is designed to monitor student growth across grades in each of these areas annually
Pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will also report two cross-test scores (1) Analysis in HistorySocial Studies and (2) Analysis in Science Each of these scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 These scores are based on selected questions in the SAT Reading Writing and Language and Math Tests and will reflect the application of reading writing language and math skills in historysocial studies and science contexts
The redesigned SAT will report multiple subscores for Reading Writing and Language and Math The Reading and Writing and Language Tests will contribute questions to two subscores (1) Command of Evidence and (2) Relevant Words in Context The Writing and Language Test will also report two additional subscores (1) Expression of Ideas and (2) Standard English Conventions
The Math Test will report three subscores (1) Heart of Algebra (2) Problem Solving and Data Analysis and (3) Passport to Advanced Math In total pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will report seven subscores each on a scale ranging from 1 to 15
The table below summarizes the scores expected to be reported on the redesigned SAT pending the results of research In total we hope to report
one composite score
two area scores
three test scores (plus additional Essay scores)
two cross-test scores and
seven subscores
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Concordance
In addition to these scores students will have access to other helpful interpretative information about their performance For example a studentrsquos numerical score will be explained in terms of the knowledge skills and understandings that the score likely represents Providing both numerical and content-based interpretations of student performance not only better defines what students know and can do but also helps students and teachers identify the knowledge skills and understandings students can focus on learning next to increase their achievement
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the other Therefore to help higher education admission officers Kndash12 educators and counselors and students and parents transition to the new test scores we will be providing a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other In particular the concordance will help high school counselors and admission officers maintain continuity between data collected from the current SAT and the redesigned SAT and will provide admission officers with a convenient way to evaluate applicants especially those who will comprise the entering college class of 2017 (some of whom will have taken the current test while others will have taken the new test) The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Training and Support
Changes to the SAT
Highlights
Regional workshops addressing revisions to the SAT and key implementation considerations are planned for mid-July through August 2014 Sign up for updates and wersquoll notify you when a session is scheduled in your region
For enrollment staff training on your campus contact your regional office to inquire about availability
Middle States Regional Office
Midwestern Regional Office
New England Regional Office
Southern Regional Office
Southwestern Regional Office
Western Regional Office
The changes wersquore making to the SAT will make it easier than ever for students to show colleges and universities their best work Wersquove outlined the major changes to the exam and how they will affect the higher education community
Students affectedThe first administration of the SAT will be in spring 2016 The first cohort of students to primarily take the redesigned SAT will be the entering class of 2017 However some students will take the current SAT before spring 2016 and then take the redesigned SAT later In those cases it is recommended that students send both scores to the colleges they apply to
Changes to content test designThe SAT is being redesigned to more closely reflect the skills and knowledge that current research tells us are most critical for college readiness and success The exam will require students to have a stronger command of fewer topics Get more details about the ways wersquore changing the SAT
Essay Students will write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a reading passage (source document) The essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission
Score scale and new score reportsThe SAT will be scored on a 400- to 1600-point scale (the essay score will be reported separately) Rich score reports for each test will provide new ways to evaluate a range of different applicants mdash from high achievers to students who may need remediation
Strong Research Base To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college An in-depth review of the evidence base research curriculum studies domain and sample questions will be made available by April 16
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Scores
Score Highlights
Deeper Insight into Studentsrsquo Skill Levels
Scores Reported by the Redesigned SAT
Composite Score
Area Scores
Test Scores
The score report for the redesigned SAT will provide admission officers a deeper profile of student readiness for college-level work The new report goes into greater detail than ever before making the redesigned SAT an even stronger admission tool
Herersquos an overview of SAT score changes
The SAT will have a 400- to 1600-point score scale
Scores for the Essay section will be reported separately
The redesigned exam will give credit for every correct response but will not deduct points for incorrect answers (rights-only scoring)
Rich score reports will provide a more detailed view of student achievement in specific skills
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus their future academic efforts This will also enable high-performing students to demonstrate their strengths and skill proficiency
Students will be given two area scores one in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and one in Math Each will be reported on a 200- to 800-point scale Students will also receive a separate score for the Essay section
In addition rich score reports will provide students with separate scores for the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test as well as with more insight into specific skills
The SAT has been redesigned to provide more information by reporting more scores than ever before The redesigned SAT will report a composite score area (domain) scores test scores cross-test scores and subscores These
ldquoInsight Scoresrdquo reported from the redesigned SAT are intended to provide additional information about student achievement and readiness that will convey a cohesive profile of student readiness The provisional list of scores subject to further research is described below
The redesigned SAT will report a composite score that will be the sum of two area scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and (2) Math The SAT composite score will be reported on a scale ranging from 400 to 1600 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and not be factored into the composite score
The redesigned SAT will report two area (domain) scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing which will be the sum of the Reading Test score and Writing and Language Test score and (2) Math which will be the Math Test score Each of the two area scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 200 to 800 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and will not be factored into the area scores
The redesigned SAT will report three test scores each on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 (1) Reading Test score (2) Writing and Language Test score (3)
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Cross-Test Scores
Subscores
The Redesigned SAT Insight Score Summary
Math Test score The fourth test the Essay will be reported separately Current plans call for the Essay component to report three scores a decision that will be reassessed pending the outcome of further research
The SAT will be the anchor of a vertically aligned longitudinal assessment system that is designed to monitor student growth across grades in each of these areas annually
Pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will also report two cross-test scores (1) Analysis in HistorySocial Studies and (2) Analysis in Science Each of these scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 These scores are based on selected questions in the SAT Reading Writing and Language and Math Tests and will reflect the application of reading writing language and math skills in historysocial studies and science contexts
The redesigned SAT will report multiple subscores for Reading Writing and Language and Math The Reading and Writing and Language Tests will contribute questions to two subscores (1) Command of Evidence and (2) Relevant Words in Context The Writing and Language Test will also report two additional subscores (1) Expression of Ideas and (2) Standard English Conventions
The Math Test will report three subscores (1) Heart of Algebra (2) Problem Solving and Data Analysis and (3) Passport to Advanced Math In total pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will report seven subscores each on a scale ranging from 1 to 15
The table below summarizes the scores expected to be reported on the redesigned SAT pending the results of research In total we hope to report
one composite score
two area scores
three test scores (plus additional Essay scores)
two cross-test scores and
seven subscores
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Concordance
In addition to these scores students will have access to other helpful interpretative information about their performance For example a studentrsquos numerical score will be explained in terms of the knowledge skills and understandings that the score likely represents Providing both numerical and content-based interpretations of student performance not only better defines what students know and can do but also helps students and teachers identify the knowledge skills and understandings students can focus on learning next to increase their achievement
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the other Therefore to help higher education admission officers Kndash12 educators and counselors and students and parents transition to the new test scores we will be providing a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other In particular the concordance will help high school counselors and admission officers maintain continuity between data collected from the current SAT and the redesigned SAT and will provide admission officers with a convenient way to evaluate applicants especially those who will comprise the entering college class of 2017 (some of whom will have taken the current test while others will have taken the new test) The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate
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Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
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Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Scores
Score Highlights
Deeper Insight into Studentsrsquo Skill Levels
Scores Reported by the Redesigned SAT
Composite Score
Area Scores
Test Scores
The score report for the redesigned SAT will provide admission officers a deeper profile of student readiness for college-level work The new report goes into greater detail than ever before making the redesigned SAT an even stronger admission tool
Herersquos an overview of SAT score changes
The SAT will have a 400- to 1600-point score scale
Scores for the Essay section will be reported separately
The redesigned exam will give credit for every correct response but will not deduct points for incorrect answers (rights-only scoring)
Rich score reports will provide a more detailed view of student achievement in specific skills
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus their future academic efforts This will also enable high-performing students to demonstrate their strengths and skill proficiency
Students will be given two area scores one in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and one in Math Each will be reported on a 200- to 800-point scale Students will also receive a separate score for the Essay section
In addition rich score reports will provide students with separate scores for the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test as well as with more insight into specific skills
The SAT has been redesigned to provide more information by reporting more scores than ever before The redesigned SAT will report a composite score area (domain) scores test scores cross-test scores and subscores These
ldquoInsight Scoresrdquo reported from the redesigned SAT are intended to provide additional information about student achievement and readiness that will convey a cohesive profile of student readiness The provisional list of scores subject to further research is described below
The redesigned SAT will report a composite score that will be the sum of two area scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and (2) Math The SAT composite score will be reported on a scale ranging from 400 to 1600 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and not be factored into the composite score
The redesigned SAT will report two area (domain) scores (1) Evidence-Based Reading and Writing which will be the sum of the Reading Test score and Writing and Language Test score and (2) Math which will be the Math Test score Each of the two area scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 200 to 800 The scores for the Essay will be reported separately and will not be factored into the area scores
The redesigned SAT will report three test scores each on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 (1) Reading Test score (2) Writing and Language Test score (3)
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Cross-Test Scores
Subscores
The Redesigned SAT Insight Score Summary
Math Test score The fourth test the Essay will be reported separately Current plans call for the Essay component to report three scores a decision that will be reassessed pending the outcome of further research
The SAT will be the anchor of a vertically aligned longitudinal assessment system that is designed to monitor student growth across grades in each of these areas annually
Pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will also report two cross-test scores (1) Analysis in HistorySocial Studies and (2) Analysis in Science Each of these scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 These scores are based on selected questions in the SAT Reading Writing and Language and Math Tests and will reflect the application of reading writing language and math skills in historysocial studies and science contexts
The redesigned SAT will report multiple subscores for Reading Writing and Language and Math The Reading and Writing and Language Tests will contribute questions to two subscores (1) Command of Evidence and (2) Relevant Words in Context The Writing and Language Test will also report two additional subscores (1) Expression of Ideas and (2) Standard English Conventions
The Math Test will report three subscores (1) Heart of Algebra (2) Problem Solving and Data Analysis and (3) Passport to Advanced Math In total pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will report seven subscores each on a scale ranging from 1 to 15
The table below summarizes the scores expected to be reported on the redesigned SAT pending the results of research In total we hope to report
one composite score
two area scores
three test scores (plus additional Essay scores)
two cross-test scores and
seven subscores
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Concordance
In addition to these scores students will have access to other helpful interpretative information about their performance For example a studentrsquos numerical score will be explained in terms of the knowledge skills and understandings that the score likely represents Providing both numerical and content-based interpretations of student performance not only better defines what students know and can do but also helps students and teachers identify the knowledge skills and understandings students can focus on learning next to increase their achievement
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the other Therefore to help higher education admission officers Kndash12 educators and counselors and students and parents transition to the new test scores we will be providing a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other In particular the concordance will help high school counselors and admission officers maintain continuity between data collected from the current SAT and the redesigned SAT and will provide admission officers with a convenient way to evaluate applicants especially those who will comprise the entering college class of 2017 (some of whom will have taken the current test while others will have taken the new test) The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate
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Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
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Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Cross-Test Scores
Subscores
The Redesigned SAT Insight Score Summary
Math Test score The fourth test the Essay will be reported separately Current plans call for the Essay component to report three scores a decision that will be reassessed pending the outcome of further research
The SAT will be the anchor of a vertically aligned longitudinal assessment system that is designed to monitor student growth across grades in each of these areas annually
Pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will also report two cross-test scores (1) Analysis in HistorySocial Studies and (2) Analysis in Science Each of these scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 10 to 40 These scores are based on selected questions in the SAT Reading Writing and Language and Math Tests and will reflect the application of reading writing language and math skills in historysocial studies and science contexts
The redesigned SAT will report multiple subscores for Reading Writing and Language and Math The Reading and Writing and Language Tests will contribute questions to two subscores (1) Command of Evidence and (2) Relevant Words in Context The Writing and Language Test will also report two additional subscores (1) Expression of Ideas and (2) Standard English Conventions
The Math Test will report three subscores (1) Heart of Algebra (2) Problem Solving and Data Analysis and (3) Passport to Advanced Math In total pending the results of research the redesigned SAT will report seven subscores each on a scale ranging from 1 to 15
The table below summarizes the scores expected to be reported on the redesigned SAT pending the results of research In total we hope to report
one composite score
two area scores
three test scores (plus additional Essay scores)
two cross-test scores and
seven subscores
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Concordance
In addition to these scores students will have access to other helpful interpretative information about their performance For example a studentrsquos numerical score will be explained in terms of the knowledge skills and understandings that the score likely represents Providing both numerical and content-based interpretations of student performance not only better defines what students know and can do but also helps students and teachers identify the knowledge skills and understandings students can focus on learning next to increase their achievement
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the other Therefore to help higher education admission officers Kndash12 educators and counselors and students and parents transition to the new test scores we will be providing a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other In particular the concordance will help high school counselors and admission officers maintain continuity between data collected from the current SAT and the redesigned SAT and will provide admission officers with a convenient way to evaluate applicants especially those who will comprise the entering college class of 2017 (some of whom will have taken the current test while others will have taken the new test) The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate
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Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
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Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Concordance
In addition to these scores students will have access to other helpful interpretative information about their performance For example a studentrsquos numerical score will be explained in terms of the knowledge skills and understandings that the score likely represents Providing both numerical and content-based interpretations of student performance not only better defines what students know and can do but also helps students and teachers identify the knowledge skills and understandings students can focus on learning next to increase their achievement
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the other Therefore to help higher education admission officers Kndash12 educators and counselors and students and parents transition to the new test scores we will be providing a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other In particular the concordance will help high school counselors and admission officers maintain continuity between data collected from the current SAT and the redesigned SAT and will provide admission officers with a convenient way to evaluate applicants especially those who will comprise the entering college class of 2017 (some of whom will have taken the current test while others will have taken the new test) The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate
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Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
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Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Considerations for Higher Education
Assessing Writing
Writing and Language
Essay
this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current SAT and the redesigned SAT
As you consider the new scores that will be part of the rich score reporting please keep these considerations in mind
The scores described above should be considered ldquodraftrdquo until the research is completed to ensure that they can all be delivered as described This research will be available in the coming months
The new scores will give you more insight into student strengths and weaknesses Once the research is complete we can provide additional information on how to use them on your campus in your admissions placement advising and retention processes
You may need to make technology modifications to be able to capture the range and richness of new scores
Writing skills are critical for student success in college The College Board will continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the SAT through the Writing and Language Test and the Essay providing students with two separate opportunities to demonstrate their writing proficiency We will also provide instructional support to teachers to help them develop effective strategies for teaching writing skills
The Writing and Language Test uses multiple-choice questions to assess the academic skills required for college success This section will test students on the following
Command of evidence
Word choice
Understanding of the conventions of Standard Written English
Expression of ideas
Ability to edit text for clarity and usage
Writing skills are also assessed on the SAT through the Essay section Changes that are important to note include
The Essay is being revised to better reflect the types of analytical writing necessary for college success
Students will read a source document and explain and analyze how a writer builds an argument through the use of evidence or stylistic and persuasive techniques
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Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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May 21 2014
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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May 21 2014
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Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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May 21 2014
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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May 21 2014
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Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
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Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Common Prompt Applied to Different
Source Documents
Scoring and Reporting
Making the Essay Optional
The essay prompt will be the same every time only the source document will change The Essay will require no prior knowledge of the topic but will require the student to use the information contained in the source document
The Essay will be optional giving colleges the flexibility to determine if it will be required for admission decisions
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the essay which is double the time given on the current SAT
Read more about essay analyzing a source and view a sample question
The essay prompt on every redesigned SAT will be roughly the following ldquoAs you read the passage in front of you consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audiencerdquo The task will remain the same what will vary is the source text A new text inviting fresh thinking is what students will discover when they take each exam The essay prompt is designed to cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing mdash hallmarks of a college- and career-ready student
Similar to college course work the Essay will be scored based on studentsrsquo effective use of evidence as well as their skill in composition The score for the Essay will not be included in the 400- to 1600-point total that is reported but will appear as a separate score
While the College Board remains steadfast in its commitment to the importance of analytical writing for all students two factors have contributed to its decision to no longer make the Essay a required part of the SAT First while the writing work that students do in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section of the exam is strongly predictive of college and career readiness and success one single essay historically has not contributed significantly to the overall predictive power of the exam Second feedback from hundreds of member admission officers was divided some of them found the current essay useful but many did not
Therefore by making the redesigned Essay optional colleges will have the flexibility to make their own decisions about requiring the Essay and students applying to colleges that do not require the Essay will be saved the expense and time for test results that will not be considered The College Board will require several samples of analytical essay writing throughout its Advanced Placement Program courses as well as in the sample work designed for classrooms in grades 6ndash12
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
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Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
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Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
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scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
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Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
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May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
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May 21 2014
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The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
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May 21 2014
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2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
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May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
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Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Key Values of the SAT Essay in Your College
Admissions Process
The revised SAT Essay will provide value to the admission process that is worth the effort of requiring the submission of the Essay With the revisions the Essay will evaluate critical analysis and writing skills in a way that is unique and can provide significant detailed information to colleges in the admission process
The SAT Essay has been re-imagined to closely reflect the analytical writing that will be required of students throughout their college experience The Essay will ask students to
read and analyze a high-quality source text
produce a cogent and clear written analysis of the text supported by critical reasoning and evidence drawn from the source
The new format new scoring rubric and new emphasis on the use of evidence make the SAT Essay a unique way to independently assess student writing and analytical skills Student responses will be assessed on their
understanding of the source (passage)
analysis of the authorrsquos use of evidence reasoning andor stylistic and persuasive elements andor features of the text of the studentrsquos own choosing
cohesiveness of the studentrsquos written response as well as their use of language
Colleges that utilize the Essay will inspire close reading and analysis in high schools across the nation
The redesigned Essay section is designed to support high school students and teachers as they cultivate close reading careful analysis and clear writing It will promote the practice of reading a wide variety of arguments and analyzing how authors do their work as writers
The essay prompt will be shared in advance and remain consistent enabling teachers and students to practice Only the source material (a high-quality previously published authentic text) will change in each form of the test
The passages will be high quality inspiring high schools to use similar texts That is the passages examine ideas debates trends and the like in the arts the sciences and civic cultural and political life that have wide interest relevance and accessibility to a general readership Passages tend not to be simple procon debates on issues but instead strive to convey nuanced views on complex subjects
Students will be given 50 minutes to write the Essay creating a time-constrained but reasonable environment to demonstrate skills This parallels the experience of homework assignments and other activities
Get more detailed information on the revised SAT essay
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Validity and Concordance
Research Base
Evidentiary Foundation for
Reading and Writing
The current SAT in combination with high school GPA is a strong predictor of college success The redesigned SAT will sustain or improve the validity evidence supporting the current SAT
To establish a strong foundation for validity the new test design is based on a growing body of current national and international research on the skills and knowledge needed for success in college
A fuller review of the evidentiary backbone for the redesigned SAT will be available on April 16 2014 The key findings from this research guide all aspects of the revision including the design of the exam and the content and skill domains The test questions allow students to demonstrate their capability to
Read analyze and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts including texts on science and historysocial studies topics to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding
Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for development organization and expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar usage and punctuation conventions
Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge skills and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science social studies and career-related contexts
Make careful and considered use of evidence as they read and write
Demonstrate skill in analyzing data including data represented graphically in tables charts graphs and the like in reading writing and math contexts
Reveal an understanding of vocabulary in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone
The redesigned SAT supports an emphasis on source analysis and evidence use throughout the Reading and Writing and Language Tests
The College Boardrsquos national curriculum surveys demonstrate that postsecondary instructors rate the following capacities as highly important
Summarizing a textrsquos central argument or main idea
Identifying rhetorical strategies used in a text
Identifying logical flaws in an authorrsquos argument
Writing analyses and evaluations of texts
Using supporting details and examples
Developing a logical argument
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Evidentiary Foundation for Math
Experts Explore the Redesigned SAT
A Plan for Validity and Concordance
Test Design
Pilot Predictive Validity Study
Many institutions have devoted considerable resources to developing the skills of source analysis and evidence use in their students
Please refer to research by these leading universities
Duke University
Cornell University
Texas AampM University
The University of California Berkeley
A significant disconnect exists today in mathematics between the Kndash12 and higher education systems In a recent national survey nearly 90 percent of high school teachers said that students were leaving high school prepared for college-level mathematics while almost 75 percent of postsecondary instructors said that they were not The Math section will therefore focus on the few areas of math that evidence shows most contribute to student readiness for college and career training The exam will focus on three essential areas Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
Expert educators talk about the skills and knowledge that the redesigned SAT will test and illustrate how they connect to classroom learning
The College Board is implementing the following detailed plan to demonstrate the validity of the SAT The process will be one that has continuous input into the iterative design process of the assessment
Work has begun to build strong evidence for validity by testing item types exam questions essay prompts and test forms over time The College Board will review student performance metrics to ensure that exam questions and test forms are measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to measure
We will launch a pilot study of the predictive validity of the SAT with the partnership of colleges and universities This study will allow us to gather early evidence of the validity of the SAT for predicting college performance In particular we will examine the relationship between high school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT and the incremental prediction of the SAT over HSGPA in predicting college English and math grades as well as first-year GPA As sample sizes permit we will also examine differences in predictive validity by student subgroups
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
National Predictive Validity Study
Concordance Tables
After the introduction of the redesigned SAT we will begin an ongoing process of documenting the relationship of performance on the assessment to outcomes of interest Beginning with the first cohort of students to have primarily taken the redesigned SAT (the entering college class of fall 2017) we will launch a longitudinal national SAT Validity Study in partnership with colleges and universities to examine the relationship between SAT scores and college outcomes such as GPA course grades persistence and completion We will conduct extensive validity analyses by subgroup The timeframe for this work will be
Before summer 2018 Institutions sign up to participate
Fall 2018 Data file is received by the College Board including completed data-sharing agreements
2019 Validity study is complete and distributed
Those interested in participating should contact nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
Because the redesigned SAT is a different test than the current SAT a numerical score on one test will not be strictly equivalent to the same numerical score on the other We will provide a concordance between the scores on the current SAT and the redesigned SAT that shows how to relate the scores of one test to the scores of the other Concordance tables enable admission offices to have longitudinal consistency in their behavioral models and to evaluate applicants that have taken the different exams (eg class of 2017)
The concordance information will be released immediately after the first operational administration of the redesigned SAT in 2016 The data format of the concordance information will be released earlier in 2014 to help postsecondary institutions prepare to receive process and integrate this information into their data systems We will also provide a concordance linking scores on the redesigned SAT and the ACT test this concordance will be derived from the concordance between the current and redesigned SATs
Delivery Schedule for Concordance Table
Concordance Available
DecemberRedesigned PSATNMSQT to current PSATNMSQT
2015
Redesigned SAT to current SAT May 2016
Derived Concordance May 2016
Redesigned SAT to ACT
Please note The concordance to ACT will be derived by matching the redesigned SAT to the current SAT and then the current SAT to the ACT using validated concordance tables
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Operational Implementation
2014
Training and support on the use of the concordance tables will be available in summer 2015
The redesign of the SAT will require operational and technological changes for college admission offices Dedicated teams have been formed within the College Board to plan and execute the implementation and provide support to campuses across the nation
The immediate priorities for operational implementation are to release the file format for the new score reporting and to collaborate directly with the leading IT vendors and higher education IT staff to ensure a smooth transition The revisions are primarily a new score scale (400 to 1600 points) a new essay score and the introduction of detailed score reports
The plans and timing for this work are as follows
File Layout
Survey to Colleges Regarding IT
Implementation
IT Vendor Outreach and Collaboration
Implementation Guide
The new file layout will include scores and their scale (eg 2-digit 3-digit) and a small sample data file (1ndash10 records) The data file layout will be released in summer 2014 The scores will have an indicator to enable admission officers to differentiate between old and new scores Additionally sample data files will be provided in fall 2014 for testing
An email survey will be sent to colleges in May 2014 to document vendor and custom systems and to determine the IT point of contact at each college That person will receive College Board communications regarding the work with IT vendors and the steps in the implementation
The College Board is committed to working collaboratively with leading IT vendors to ensure smooth integration of the SAT revisions into all of the leading systems used by admission offices In July 2014 when the new file format is released we will convene the leading IT vendors that provide services to enrollment and admission officers Here is the initial list of vendors (which will be augmented based on the survey results)
Campus Management Oracle
Ellucian PeopleSoft
Hobsons SAP
Jenzabar
We recognize that revisions to the SAT will require additional work for colleges and universities in the implementation process In late summer 2014 the College Board will provide the first of several Implementation Guides to support colleges in preparing for these changes
The first Implementation Guide will coincide with the release of the revised Data File Layout for the redesigned SAT and will include information to help you build your plan and timeline for loading and using the redesigned SAT
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
scores Utilizing these guides will help you make the best use of the rich information that will be provided with the scores on the redesigned SAT
2015ndash2016
Concordance
Training
Institutional Research (IR) Outreach
Communications Toolkit
Talking to Your Constituents
Information for Students Parents and
High School Counselors
Sample Content for Your Collegersquos
Website Facebook Page Blogs Etc
Talking to Your Colleagues
Concordance tables will be made accessible electronically as soon as they are available
Training for staff on how to interpret new scores and use concordance in recruitment planning
Training and clear messages for how to report for CDS IPEDS ASC
As admission and enrollment leaders you will be the campus experts on the redesigned SAT The College Board is committed to providing communications support to help you respond confidently to questions from your constituents and colleagues
During the course of 2014ndash2016 students parents and counselors will have many questions about the redesigned SAT The College Board has developed FAQs that you can use to respond to these questions In addition the slides in our SAT Presentation for Students and Parents can be used when visiting high schools and presenting to students and parents
For the high school graduating class of 2017 The SAT is being redesigned to become more focused clear and open Details on the major changes can be found on deliveringopportunityorg The redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
We know that you will need to talk to many internal colleagues including presidents provosts faculty data analysts and others Below are some general talking points followed by specific talking points tailored to different institutional departments and an SAT Presentation for Campus Colleagues geared toward leadership
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Talking Points for Presidents Provosts
and Other Institutional Colleagues
These talking points can be used with institutional colleagues and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
The Redesigned SAT On March 5 2014 the College Board formally announced that the redesigned SAT will be given for the first time in spring 2016
Access to OpportunityThe Access to Opportunity initiative will work to ensure that students of various backgrounds engage in academic rigor during high school through the All In campaign and will provide college application fee waivers for income-eligible students These are just some of the ways the College Board is working to propel students into the opportunities they have earned
Why is the SAT being redesignedThe College Boardrsquos members have called on them to change the SAT to go beyond assessment to deliver opportunity
Less than half of the students who take the SAT are college ready and that statistic has remained constant over time Even among those who are ready the majority of low-income high-achieving students do not apply to colleges within their reach
The goal is to support college readiness and success for more students and to make sure that those who are prepared take full advantage of the opportunities theyrsquove earned through their hard work
Because a test alone canrsquot change student outcomes assessments such as the SAT must be integrated with rigorous classroom instruction and through their results propel students to greater opportunities The redesigned SAT will reward productive use of classroom time and a focus on rigorous course work
What are the major changes
Read and overview of the current SAT vs the redesigned SAT
The new exam is focused on those things that current research shows matter most for college readiness and will introduce new ways for students to show their best work
The length of the test will be three hours plus an additional 50 minutes for the essay Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Return to the 400- to 1600-point scale The essay will be scored separately
Rights-only scoring There will be no penalty for wrong answers
The College Board is partnering with Khan Academy to provide free test practice to the world
The redesigned SAT will provide rich score reports giving students detailed information about their abilities and helping them focus future academic efforts
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
How will the exam itself be different
Get details about the redesigned SAT and sample questions
Four sections Reading Test Writing and Language Test Math Test and the Essay
Command of evidence Students will be asked to support answers with evidence and analyze a wide range of sources including literature and literary nonfiction science history and social studies
Relevant words in context There will be a shift in focus from obscure vocabulary to words that are commonly used in college but whose meanings are derived from the contexts in which they appear
The Essay and analysis Students will be given 50 minutes to write an essay based on a common prompt that will be applied to a source document Students will be scored on their writing abilities and their ability to use evidence to support an argument This essay will be optional giving colleges a choice of whether to require it for admission Please note Precise timing is tentative and subject to research
Analysis in Science and Social Studies When students take the redesigned SAT they will be asked to apply their reading writing language and math skills to answer questions in science history and social studies contexts
Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation Every time students take the SAT one of the passages they encounter will be from one of the Founding Documents or a text from the Great Global Conversation they inspire
Focused math The exam will focus on fewer things that are essential for college Problem Solving and Data Analysis the Heart of Algebra and Passport to Advanced Math
These talking points will help you communicate with data analysts mdash both on your staff and in institutional research offices mdash and can serve as a starting point for developing memoranda or leading a briefing meeting
How is the College Board sustaining validityThe College Board has publicly stated its commitment that the redesigned SAT will only launch if it has the same or better predictive validity than the current SAT The College Board is conducting a series of studies from 2013 through 2019 to ensure and examine a range of variables relating to validity Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
How will this impact our campus score sends and dataThe SAT total score will be reported on a 400- to 1600-point scale and will be the sum of the two main area scores which will also be reported
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (total of 800)
Math (total of 800)
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
The score for the Essay will be reported separately The College Board will provide detailed score reports that will give researchers more information on studentsrsquo abilities and preparation for college-level work Please refer to the Scores page for more detailed information
Will there be concordance tables availableThe College Board will provide concordance tables between old and new exam scores Concordance tables will be released electronically after the redesigned SAT exam in 2016 There will also be a derived concordance between the redesigned SAT and ACT Please refer to the Validity and Concordance page for more information
To participate in the national validity study please email nsatvastudycollegeboardorg
If you have questions please email SATHigherEdcollegeboardorg
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Implementation Timeline
The College Board will launch the redesigned SAT in spring 2016 The following timeline shows what we mdash along with our colleagues in the higher education community mdash have already accomplished and what is still to come
Please note Our revision and research processes are ongoing As such the exact dates and specific details are subject to change We will keep this page up to date so you can make sure your institution knows what to expect from us and when
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013 Higher education listening tour and follow-up meetings with more than 300 colleges
Consultation with SAT Committee and Higher Education Working Group
Higher Education Working Group notified of launch schedule for the redesigned SAT in spring 2016
Validity research and pilot testing begin (ongoing)
2014 March 5
Formal College Board announcement of redesigned SAT
Launch of deliveringopportunityorg to provide information and resources for College Board members partners and constituents
SpringSummer
Release of the test specifications document for redesigned SAT
Information provided to higher education professionals for communicating with state legislators and policymakers about admission and scholarship policies for the redesigned SAT
Release of file layout for redesigned SAT score reports
Data file layout and sample data file provided to major college IT staff and vendors with an explanation of changes
Campus and regional training available
Fall
2014 College Board Forum featuring workshops and sessions on implementing the new assessments and leveraging College Board Search
Campus and regional training available
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
2015 SpringSummer
College Board Search launches workshops for building strategic enrollment plans that leverage the new assessment
Campus training available on implementation of the new assessments
FallWinter
Training and webinars offered for College Board Search concordance and demographic trends in test-taking and scores (ongoing)
First administration of the redesigned PSATNMSQT
2016 WinterSpring
First administration of the redesigned SAT (plus additional spring 2016 administrations)
Release of concordance tables comparing current SAT and redesigned SAT
Derived concordance between redesigned SAT and ACT
SummerFall
College Board regional staff available to train admission office and campus leadership on redesigned SAT (ongoing)
Fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2017 Spring and fall administrations of the redesigned SAT
2018 Spring
Spring administrations of the redesigned SAT
Registration begins for validity studies
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Collaboration Members of the College Board including elected College Board governance leaders national experts on higher education and enrollment leaders have been providing input on the SAT redesign and the implementation plan
80+ campus meetings were held as part of an initial listening tour in early 2013
Sessions at regional and national conferences have provided opportunities for discussion
Nearly 300 institutions contributed their guidance and input during meetings with the College Board
The College Board is a membership institution and members including the Board of Trustees Guidance and Admission Assembly Council Academic Assembly Council SAT Committee and the College Scholarship Service Assembly Council have provided input to various elements of this effort over the last year
In addition a Higher Education Working Group was formed to provide feedback on elements of the test design as well as the redesigned SATrsquos scoring operational implementation validity and concordance and communications This group was formed to ensure that a diverse set of colleges and universities were involved in the discussion and in considering key success factors and potential risks The Working Grouprsquos members represent enrollment leaders from a wide variety of institutions and their valuable insight will help inform the implementation through the launch and beyond
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Higher Education Working Group
John Barnhill Chair Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Florida State University
Mary Adams Associate Director of Admissions
Pennsylvania State University
Pamela Agoyo Director American Indian Student ServicesSpecial Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs
University of New Mexico
Joseacute Aviles Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
Robert Barkley Director of University Admissions
Clemson University
DeAngela Burns-Wallace Assistant Vice ProvostDirector of Access Initiatives
University of Missouri
Doug Christiansen Vice Provost for EnrollmentDean of AdmissionsAsst Prof Public Policy amp Higher Ed
Vanderbilt University
Omar Correa Vice President of Enrollment Management
Loras College
Stephanie Dupaul Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Southern Methodist University
Kevin Dyerly Vice President of Enrollment
University of Redlands
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
Ronne Turner Assoc VP of EnrollmentDean of Admissions and Marketing
Northeastern University
Megan Wang Associate Director of Admissions
University of Southern California
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Zina Evans Vice President for Enrollment ManagementAssociate Provost
University of Florida
Karen Foust Executive Vice President for Strategic InitiativesVice President for Enrollment
Hendrix College
Stephen J Handel Associate Vice President Undergraduate Admissions
University of California
Pam Horne Assoc Vice Provost for Enrollment ManagementDean of Admissions
Purdue University
Kedra Ishop Vice ProvostDirector of Admissions
University of Texas at Austin
Kerri Johnston Associate Dean of EnrollmentDirector of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Heather McDonnell Director of Financial Aid
Sarah Lawrence College
Rodney Morrison Associate Chancellor for Enrollment Management
Rutgers University-Camden
Jim Nondorf Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
University of Chicago
Logan Powell Director of Admission
Princeton University
deliveringopportunityorg
Higher Education and the Redesigned SAT
May 21 2014
copy2014 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Access to Opportunity is a trademark owned by the College Board Visit the College Board on the Web wwwcollegeboardorg
Jeremiah Quinlan Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
Stu Schmill Dean of Admissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Shackleford Vice President for Student Affairs
Virginia State University
Jeremy Spencer Dean of Enrollment Management
Framingham State University
Carey Thompson Dean of Admission
Rhodes College
Keith Todd Dean of Admission
Reed College
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