Standardized and adaptive testing

- [Instructor] The Suneung exam is South Korea's…eight-hour long collegiate scholastic ability test,…or a CSAT, that is administered simultaneously…to 600,000 students in November.…This is a high-stakes test.…Students and their families believe that it's critical…in determining which university they will attend…and, by extension, their professional life thereafter.…South Korea takes this very seriously.…Airplanes are grounded and re-routed to reduce noise,…businesses open late to reduce traffic,…protestors pause their demonstrations,…and the police will even escort students…who are running late.…

High-stakes exams in the United States…tend to take a slightly different approach.…We have exams, for instance, on the Common Core…and TerraNova, or the International Baccalaureate degree…that a number of high schools award,…as well as the college entrance exams,…the SAT, taken by 1.7 million students a year,…or the ACT, taken by nearly two million students a year.…The big difference of course,…is they're not all on the same day and they don't close down…