The Digital SAT: Concordance Studies and Post-Admin Analyses

Session Type: Coordinated Paper Session

Abstract

The SAT suite assessment has been taken digitally by international students since March 2023 and will be taken digitally starting in Fall 2023 for students taking PSAT/NMSQT and 2024 for U.S.- based students taking SAT. The new digital SAT, administered as a multi-stage adaptive test, continues to measure the knowledge and skills that students learn in high school and matter most for college and career readiness. The digital SAT suite assessments are scored on a 1600 scale and scores can be used to track growth across the SAT Suite of Assessments over time.

Concordance studies and post-admin analyses have been conducted to ensure that the digital SAT assessments maintain the scale score metric and score integrity. In this coordinated session, five presentations will focus on three aspects of maintaining the score metric and integrity of the score for digital SAT assessments: concordance studies, post-admin psychometric and forensic analyses. Analyses results and key findings on these topics will be shared to address the questions and issues brought by the transition to the digital SAT, a multi-stage adaptive test.

Sub Unit

• Individual Papers, Innovation Demonstrations, Coordinated Sessions, or Organized Discussions

Session Organizer

• Weiwei Cui, COLLEGE BOARD

Individual Presentations

• Straight-line Concordance Studies - Thomas Proctor, COLLEGE BOARD

• 2. Concordance Studies: Link Paper SAT to Digital SAT - Weiwei Cui, COLLEGE BOARD

• PSAT/NMSQT Concordance Studies - Oliver Zhang, COLLEGE BOARD

• Post-Admin Monitoring Studies - Jonathan Beard, COLLEGE BOARD

• Post-Admin Forensic Analyses - Hui Deng, COLLEGE BOARD

Discussant

• Richard Melvin Luecht, University of North Carolina at Greensboro