Category: standardized tests

Caltech Applicants Won’t Need SAT, ACT Until 2025

California Technology Institute (Caltech) announced on July 27 that the school will not require first-year applicants to submit their SAT and ACT scores through 2025. The prestigious private research institution in Pasadena announced a two-year moratorium on SAT and ACT requirements in June 2020, saying the action was a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jared Leadbetter,…


Scrapping Standardized Tests Would Be a Mistake

Commentary Ontario is in the middle of an election campaign. This means that political party leaders are making all sorts of promises to attract voters. Unsurprisingly, the Liberals and NDP are promising to scrap the standardized tests from the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) and replace them with a different assessment strategy. The current…