The College Board is a not-for-profit examination board in the United States that was formed in the nineteenth century as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB). It manages many different standardized tests which generally cater to individuals in the third or fourth year of high school planning on continuing their educations at a post-secondary level. The SAT, the most well-known of these, is a test widely used for admission to universities in the United States. The College Board is headquartered in New York City with a large office in Reston, Virginia, but also maintains thirteen other offices in the United States and in Puerto Rico. The current president and CEO of the College Board is Gaston Caperton, the former governor of West Virginia. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... An examination board is an organization that sets examinations and is responsible for marking them and distributing results. ... A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A view of the Reston Town Center Reston is an internationally known planned community whose goal was to revolutionize post-World War II concepts of land use and residential/corporate development in American suburbia. ... William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) was twice elected as governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia and served from 1989 until 1997. ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area  Ranked 41st  - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 240 miles (385 km)  - % water 0. ...

College Board headquarters in New York

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Regional Offices

College Board maintains a small number of regional offices throughout the Continental United States. Among the functions of the regional offices are the development and execution of professional development programs for teachers and school counselors, as well as research into and product development in the area of financial aid. The College Board currently is engaged in several top-to-bottom school redesign programs that aim to increase achievement by poor and minority middle and high school students. Funded by grants from various foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the College Board Schools operate autonomously within New York City public school buildings. A similar program is the EXCELerator program operating in Washington, DC, Duval County, FL, and Chicago Public Schools. ^[1] Both of these school reform programs use the Springboard and CollegeEd materials as part of their programs. Financial aid refers to funding intended to help students pay tuition or other costs, such as room and board, for education at a college, university, or private school. ... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest charitable foundation. ...

CEEB Code

The College Board maintains a numbered registry [1] of countries, college majors, colleges, scholarship programs, test centers, and high schools. In the United States, in addition to the College Board's internal use this registry is borrowed by other institutions as a means of unambiguous identification; thus, a student might give his or her guidance department not only a college's name and address, but also its CEEB code, to ensure that his or her transcript is sent correctly. There exists a similar set of ACT codes for colleges and scholarships [2], test centers [3], and high schools [4], however these codes are less widely used outside ACT, Inc. The ACT® test is a standardized achievement examination for college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. ...

College Board Tests

SAT

The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is administered by the College Board not-for-profit corporation[1] in the United States and is developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). SAT Subject Tests measure student performance in specific areas, such as mathematics, science, and history. The SAT (pronounced S-A-T), formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test, is a type of standardized test frequently used by colleges and universities in the United States to aid in the selection of incoming students. ... College admissions or university admission is the process through which students enter post-secondary education at universities and colleges. ... The SAT Subject Tests is the collective name for 20 multiple choice standardized tests given on individual subjects. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... The title page to The Historians History of the World. ...

PSAT/NMSQT

PSAT/NMSQT stands for Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. It's a standardized test that provides firsthand practice for the SAT Reasoning Test. It also functions as a qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation scholarship programs. The PSAT/NMSQT, or Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, is a multiple-choice standardized test administered by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). ... The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) is a non-profit corporation operating in the United States. ...

College Level Examination Program

College Level Examination Program provides students of any age with the opportunity to demonstrate college-level achievement through a program of exams in undergraduate college courses. There are 2,900 colleges that grant credit and/or advanced standing for CLEP exams. The College Level Examination Program (or CLEP) is a series of tests offered by the College Board. ...

Advanced Placement Program

The College Board's Advanced Placement Program is an extensive program that offers high school students the chance to participate in college level classes, broadening their intellectual horizons and preparing them for college work. It also plays a large part in the college admissions process, showing both student's intellectual capacity and genuine interest in learning. The program is also important in that it allows many students to gain college credit for for high performance, much in the same manner as the CLEP. The Advanced Placement Program is a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada. ... A credit is a unit that gives weighting to the value, level or time requirements of an academic course. ...

Criticism

Recently, The College Board has come under a large amount of criticism from students and educators alike. The criticism comes with respect to two different areas.

Cost

Many students and parents feel that the group is too expensive.^{[citation needed]} With the SAT Reasoning Test costing $43, AP Tests costing $84 (2008 administration), and SAT Subject Tests costing a baseline of $20 with additional tests costing $8, the testing fees can be prohibitive for many individuals. Furthermore, there are numerous other costs that can be added to the basic costs, including late registration, rescoring, and various answering services that are available. SAT grade reports cost $9.50 per college for 3-5 week delivery ($26.50 extra for 2 day delivery), and AP grade reports cost $15. Many high-achieving students end up paying more than $600 in the course of the college applications process.^{[citation needed]}

Fairness

College Board also has been attacked, especially with regard to the SAT Reasoning Test, with the argument that its tests do not accurately measure either intellectual potential or skills learned in high school. Scores for students taking the test a second time generally improve and coaching also can help students achieve much better results. In response to demand extensive preparation regimes, have become popular. As a result, many lower income students who are financially unable to attend these classes are put at a disadvantage.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• ACT

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External links

• College Board website
• About the College Board
• The College Board's tests
• History of the College Board

References

1. ^ New Investment Broadens College Board's National Education Reform Efforts to Ensure More Students Graduate Ready for College and Work accessdate=2006-11-18 (2006-08-31).

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