Who created the SAT?

Answer 1

The initials SAT have been used since the test was first introduced in 1901, when it was known as the Scholastic Achievement Test and was meant to measure the level achieved by students seeking college admission. The test was used mainly by colleges and universities in the northeastern United States. In 1941, after considerable development, the non-profit College Board changed the name to the Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the most popular name. The test became much more widely used in the 1950s and 1960s and once was almost universal.

The success of SAT coaching schools, such as Kaplan and the Princeton Review, forced the College Board to change the name again. In 1990, the name was changed to Scholastic Assessment Test, since a test that can be coached clearly did not measure inherent "scholastic aptitude", but was influenced largely by what the test subject had learned in school. This was a major theoretical retreat by the College Board, which had previously maintained that the test measured inherent aptitude and was free of bias.

In 1994, however, the redundancy of the term assessment test was recognized and the name was changed to the neutral, and non-descriptive, SAT. At the time, the College Board announced, "Please note that SAT is not an initialism. It does not stand for anything."

Answer 2

The College Board created the SAT Program.

Answer 3

The SAT was created by the Educational Testing Service In Princeton, N.J

Answer 4

The SAT was created by a psychologist at Princeton called Carl Brigham .

Answer 5

The Educational Testing Service.

Answer 6

The Scholastic Aptitude Test was created by Irving L. Sitzberger of Bayonne, New Jersey in 1953.

Answer 7

They say that Carl Campbell Brigham and the College board invented the SAT, so the colleges could set a standard to go by..

Answer 8

The SAT was born in the 1920s-the product of a growing desire by American educators, led by Harvard president James Bryant Conant, to open up their universities to the best students across the country.

Answer 9

I have no respect for the SAT or any other culturally biased standardized test. As far as I am concerned, "The Man" invented it to keep his foot on the neck of the the black man and other minority groups who don't have access to the educational opportunites made available to others who successfully master this so-called test.

Power to the people.

Answer 10

Carl Brigham, a professor of psychology at Princeton, in 1926.