Talk:Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

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Requested move 22 April 2015[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 13:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium → Smarter Balanced – "Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium" is the official name of the test, but not the common name. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium gets 216,000 results on Google, while Smarter Balanced gets 11,400,000 results. I am requesting to move the page simply to "Smarter Balanced" per WP:COMMONNAME. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 17:31, 1 May 2015 (UTC) CookieMonster755 (talk) 00:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral

"Smarter Balanced" AND "test" -www.smarterbalanced.org/ gets "About 265,000 results"

"Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium" AND "test" -www.smarterbalanced.org/ gets "About 56,400 results"

"SBAC" AND "test" -www.smarterbalanced.org/ gets "About 394,000 results"

However these results may reflect quantity more than quality.

For instance at www.smarterbalanced.org/ many pages have a footer inclusive of the text: "© Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium". There are two other SBACs that will certainly be involved with tests.

By no means as a recommendation but one option may be to keep the current content at Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and, if needed, start another article on Smarter Balanced tests which could include info on practice and field tests.

A search on "Smarter Balanced" AND -"Smarter Balanced practice" AND -"Smarter Balanced field" AND -"Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium" shows that the org. is often called "Smarter Balanced"

https://twitter.com/smarterbalanced presents: "Smarter Balanced is a state-led consortium developing next-generation assessments in English language arts/literacy and math aligned to the Common Core."

A change in name might make it easier for the article to talk both about the org and the tests.

I used to work with the Morrisby Profile which was most regularly known as Morrisby.

Greg Kaye 14:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Wow, you have a great opinion on the matter GregKaye. Thanks for your feedback. CookieMonster755 (talk) 13:30, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – 1) The current name is a WP:NOUN, but "Smarter Balanced" would ordinarily be interpreted as an adjective. 2) "Smarter Balanced" seems like a POV assertion, while "Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium" is clearly just a proper name and thus is POV neutral. 3) The current name explains the abbreviation SBAC, and the suggested name does not. 4) When encountered out-of-context, "Smarter Balanced" is a very ambiguous phrase that does not refer to any specific topic. (I admit to having no expertise on the subject matter, so please point out if there's something I'm missing.) Also note that a search for "X" will always get more hits than a search for "X Y", and in this case, probably many of the hits for "Smarter Balanced" are off-topic false positives. —BarrelProof (talk) 18:52, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BarrelProof - Would you support Smarter Balanced redirecting to Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium? CookieMonster755 (talk) 00:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on what other candidate topics are identified for the phrase, I suppose. At the moment, it's a redlink, so yes – redirecting it here seems like a good idea. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:24, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.