Exclusive: FBI raids home of ex-College Board official in
probe of SAT leak
Federal agents searched the home of a former
employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing
giant, as part of an investigation into the breach of hundreds of questions
from the SAT college entrance exam.
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation seized computers and other material on Friday from Manuel Alfaro,
who left his job as executive director of assessment design and development at
the College Board in February 2015
… Alfaro
had contacted officials of seven state governments in recent months, accusing
the College Board of making false claims about its tests when bidding for
public contracts with the states.
… College Board
spokesman Zach Goldberg said the leak of test questions constituted a crime. “We are pleased that this crime is being
pursued aggressively,” he said. He
dismissed Alfaro’s criticisms of the SAT test-making process as “patently false.”
The FBI raid comes after
Reuters reported earlier this month (reut.rs/2b3gtyE)
that the news agency had obtained about 400 unpublished questions from the
newly redesigned SAT exam, which debuted in March.
… Reuters
reported previously that the SAT (reut.rs/1RL4ZSI)
and its rival, the ACT, (reut.rs/2akY3uf)
are being systematically gamed by test-prep operators in Asia. The SAT has proved particularly vulnerable to
cheating because of its practice of reusing test questions.
… Alfaro emailed
his complaints to the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
Maine, Michigan and New Hampshire.
… Jeremy
Meyer of the Colorado
Department of Education said the state discussed Alfaro’s email with the
College Board and was “satisfied with the response we received.”
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