Editing SAT (section)

== Name changes ==
[[File:Old SAT logo.svg|thumb|Old SAT logo]]
The SAT has been renamed several times since its introduction in 1926. It was originally known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test.<ref name=FAQ>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/sat/FAQ.html |title=SAT FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions |access-date=May 29, 2007 |publisher=[[College Board]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325225035/http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/sat/FAQ.html |archive-date=March 25, 2008}}</ref><ref name=CBHistorical /> In 1990, a commission set up by the College Board to review the proposed changes to the SAT program recommended that the meaning of the [[initialism]] SAT be changed to "Scholastic Assessment Test" because a "test that integrates measures of achievement as well as developed ability can no longer be accurately described as a test of aptitude".<ref>{{cite book |author=Commission on New Possibilities for the Admissions Testing Program |title=Beyond Prediction |publisher=College Entrance Examination Board |page=9 |date=1990 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=S.A.T. Revisions Will Be Included In Spring '94 Test |periodical=Education Week |date=November 7, 1990 |last=Pitsch |first=Mark }}</ref> In 1993, the College Board changed the name of the test to SAT I: Reasoning Test; at the same time, the name of the [[SAT Subject Tests|SAT Achievement Tests]] was changed to SAT II: Subject Tests.<ref name=FAQ /> The Reasoning Test and Subject Tests were to be collectively known as the Scholastic Assessment Tests. According to the president of the College Board at the time, the name change was meant "to correct the impression among some people that the SAT measures something that is innate and impervious to change regardless of effort or instruction."<ref>{{cite news |title=SAT Changes Name, But It Won't Score 1,600 With Critics |newspaper=Washington Post |date=March 27, 1993 |last=Jordan |first=Mary }}</ref> The new SAT debuted in March 1994, and was referred to as the Scholastic Assessment Test by major news organizations.<ref name=SATrev94>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/nyregion/revised-and-renamed-sat-brings-same-old-anxiety.html |title=Revised and Renamed, S.A.T. Brings Same Old Anxiety |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 20, 1994 |last=Honan |first=William |access-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708000315/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/nyregion/revised-and-renamed-sat-brings-same-old-anxiety.html |archive-date=July 8, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Perfectly Happy With Her SAT; D.C. Junior Aces Scholastic Assessment Test With a 1,600 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 5, 1995 |last=Horwitz |first=Sari }}</ref> However, in 1997, the College Board announced that the SAT could not properly be called the Scholastic Assessment Test, and that the letters SAT [[pseudo-acronym|did not stand for anything]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/us/insisting-it-s-nothing-creator-says-sat-not-sat.html |title=Insisting It's Nothing, Creator Says SAT, Not S.A.T. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 2, 1997 |last=Applebome |first=Peter |access-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417203501/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/us/insisting-it-s-nothing-creator-says-sat-not-sat.html |archive-date=April 17, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2004, the Roman numeral in SAT I: Reasoning Test was dropped, making SAT Reasoning Test the name of the SAT.<ref name=FAQ /> The "Reasoning Test" portion of the name was eliminated following the exam's 2016 redesign; it is now simply called the SAT.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.collegeboard.org/difference-between-sat-and-psat |title=What is the Difference Between the SAT and the PSAT? |access-date=March 16, 2021 |publisher=[[College Board]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112043214/https://blog.collegeboard.org/difference-between-sat-and-psat |archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>