Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
If all of this multiple choice testing is so "good" for intellectual development, then why has the SAT needed recentering with ever-increasing frequency?

It isn't because scores have RISEN over time.


`Recentered' Scores Just Another Step Toward Mediocrity

Average SAT scores by year since 1952

www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/education/15sat.html


So when SHOULD we start to see this strategic shift toward testing and "critical tihnking" (in this new definition I mean) paying off?

I think the changes in SAT scores are mostly driven by the larger number of kids taking them and going to college. The SAT scores of the top 60% of HS kids is bound to be very different than the SAT scores of the top 20-30% of HS kids that used to take the test.