The link below is to the NY Times story on this but other sources
are probably available:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/education/27sat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

There are at least two implications of this decision:

(1)  More colleges and universities will feel justified in dropping
standardized tests (e.g., SAT, ACT, etc.), thus, increasing the
reliance on other measures of academic abiliity and decreasing
the need for standardized tests

and

(2)  If ETS, the College Board, and other test providers begin
to find their customer basis shrinking, what will happen to them
and the psychometricians and statisticians they employ?

Will psychological testing become and even more esoteric field
of study?  What will happen to the undergraduate tests and 
measurement course?

-Mike Palij
New York University
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