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It is curious - according to the article the tests were cancelled due to budget issues. How expensive is this testing? Is it really believable that we couldn'

• ryathal 5y ago
  Getting questions on a test is actually really expensive for a standardized test. It's been a while, but I believe it cost was in the $3-4k range per question for my state's tests. These test questions go through significant amounts of review for various biases and whether they actually measure understanding/mastery of the intended knowledge standard.
  • alach11 5y ago
    That seems pretty cheap. That would mean designing the SAT would cost $0.6 million. Compare that to the $640,000 million we spend per year and it seems absolutely negligible.
• corpdronejuly 5y ago
  There's mountains of paper, or proprietary software used for these tests. And that's before we pay for graders and monitors(and many schools need a few extra hands to do the test according to standard due to crowding).