Lisa Guisbond Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 4, 2004 The writer is a testing reform analyst, National Center for Fair and Open Testing.
CART officials based their evaluation of the track on testing by several individual teams, but never did any open testing for the race.
"They're saying that if we have one set of standards, students will meet them," said Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing in Cambridge, Mass.
That is because the par-71 course, softened by heavy rains earlier in the week, has been very vulnerable, a highly unusual situation for an Open test.
The service's handling of the error was criticized by Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, known as FairTest, in Cambridge, Mass.
"It's not called the World Wide Web for no reason," said Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an advocacy group.
The report came under attack from FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, which opposes what it calls "one size fits all" exit exams.
This attitude is all about stiffening the Open test, and it was reflected in the mood of the chief executive of the Royal and Ancient, Peter Dawson.
Stephen Lowe at annuity provider Just Retirement also believes in keeping options open: "Test-drive your retirement to keep control over your pension fund and maintain flexibility.
The measurements were carried-out in the anechoic open test section wind tunnel of Onera, Cepra19.
