Not Your Parents Aptitude Test

January 28, 2005

Educational Testing Service, the company that brought you the rank anxiety of the SAT’s, this month rolled out its newest exam – a test of digital information literacy. ETS believes that college students rely increasingly on digital information, forgoing those old-fashioned trips to the library. And if academic habits have changed you can bet that ETS has created a new way to test them. Teresa Egan, project manager of the new literacy exam, makes a case for their next generation of tests.


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