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Encyclopedia > The College Board

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. Thomas Fiske became its secretary in 1902. [1] James Connan (a former president of Harvard University) served on the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) in the 1920s. Its membership includes over 5,000 institutions of higher learning, state and local education agencies, and indivdiual schools. It is known principally for managing standardized tests such as the SAT, PSAT, CLEP, ACCUPLACER, and the subject-specific SAT Subject Tests and Advanced Placement tests. The SAT, the most well known of these, is a test widely used for admission to universities in the United States, which over 3 million prospective college students take yearly. Many of the tests are administered by the Educational Testing Service, which is the world's largest private educational measurement organization; ETS also administers other tests like the GRE and TOEFL, independent of the College Board. The College Board's headquarters are in New York City, but the organization maintains 13 other offices across the country and in Puerto Rico. Among the functions of these satellite 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 are 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 [2] operate autonomously within New York City public school buildings, with the EXCELerator [3] program operating in Washington, DC, Duval County, FL, and Chicago Public Schools. I created this image from one publicly available on College Boards website. ... An examination board is an organisation that sets examinations and is responsible for marking them and distributing results. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Originally a standardized test was simply a standard test – of academic achievement or of knowledge in a specific academic or vocational domain. ... The SAT (pronounced es-A-tee) Reasoning Test, 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. ... The PSAT/NMSQT, or Preliminary-SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, is a multiple choice standardized test generally taken by high school juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in the United States. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... The SAT Subject Tests is the collective name for 20 one-hour multiple choice tests given on individual subjects. ... The Advanced Placement Program, commonly known as Advanced Placement, or AP, is a United States and Canada-based program that offers high school students the opportunity to receive university credit for their work during high school. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... The Educational Testing Service (or ETS) is the worlds largest private educational testing and measurement organization, operating on an annual budget of approximately $900 million. ... The Graduate Record Examination or the GRE, is a standardized test taken in order to get into graduate school in the United States. ... The Test Of English as a Foreign Language (or TOEFL, pronounced toe-full, or sometimes just toffle) evaluates the potential success of an individual to use and understand Standard American English at a college level. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... 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. ...


See also

The SAT (pronounced es-A-tee) Reasoning Test, 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. ... The SAT Subject Tests is the collective name for 20 one-hour multiple choice tests given on individual subjects. ... 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). ... Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ...

External links

  • College Board website
  • About the College Board
  • The College Board's tests
  • History of the College Board
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The College Board, the folks who administer the SAT, wants the federal government to boost Pell Grant funding enough to cover the average cost of tuition, fees, room and board for a student attending a four-year public school.
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The College Board, a New York-based nonprofit best known as owner of the SAT, is a membership association composed of more than 4,200 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.
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