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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

This article is part of the collection: How AI Is Impacting Teaching and Learning.

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage.

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests.

For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skills and persistence of students.

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