Future Developments of The GED
In March of 2011, ACE and Pearson, the world's largest education and testing company, announced a new business that will develop changes to the design and delivery of the GED test. The new business will retain the name "GED Testing Service." The GED Testing Service plans to make several changes. The first change is that the test will no longer be available as a pen and paper test but will be strictly on computer. After that, there will be changes in both the content of the test and how it is scored. Finally, there will be two levels of GED testing. One will be for students interested in high school equivalency and job readiness. The other will be for people who want to go to college. The hope is that students who pass the higher level test will then be able to pass college entrance exams at a level sufficient to avoid having to take any non-college credit, developmental (a.k.a. “remedial”) courses. Those courses eat up precious college financial aid resources but generate no college transcript credits.
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