The ACT plans to change the score range for the optional writing test on its college-entrance examination, the organization announced on Tuesday. Starting this fall, the writing test will be scored on a 2-to-12 scale. The writing test itself will not change, according to a news release.
Last year the ACT revised the writing test, and students began receiving results on the same 1-to-36 scale used on the multiple-choice exam. But the change caused confusion, ACT officials say. “Converting the writing scores to the 1-to-36 scale may have made the differences in scores seem larger or more obvious,” Wayne Camara, the ACT’s senior vice president for research, said in the news release. “This really is a perceptual problem that we are addressing.”
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/act-will-change-scoring-scale-for-writing-test/112468
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