Government seeks help to stop teacher-led cheating
Written by Greg Toppo for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here.
“The Obama administration is creating a manual showing how schools can fight teacher-led cheating on standardized tests, asking educators to help stomp out “testing irregularities.”
Bob Schaffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an advocacy group, says he wonders why the department is ‘wasting time and money collecting information that is available from state education agencies, such as Georgia, which demonstrated how to do a ‘best practice’ cheating investigation.’
‘Instead of spinning its wheels,’ Schaffer said, ‘the department should make wrapping up its long-delayed review of test score manipulation in Washington, D.C., public schools a top priority.’“
“The Obama administration is creating a manual showing how schools can fight teacher-led cheating on standardized tests, asking educators to help stomp out “testing irregularities.”
Bob Schaffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an advocacy group, says he wonders why the department is ‘wasting time and money collecting information that is available from state education agencies, such as Georgia, which demonstrated how to do a ‘best practice’ cheating investigation.’
‘Instead of spinning its wheels,’ Schaffer said, ‘the department should make wrapping up its long-delayed review of test score manipulation in Washington, D.C., public schools a top priority.’“
Federal Department of Education is looking for information on NCLB cheating
Written by Guy Brandenburg for his blog. Read the entire post here.
“The US Department of Education is asking the public to share what they know about problems with cheating on standardized tests that are used to determine closings of schools and firings of teachers.
The problem is that they then plan to have a panel of “external experts” to review all of this information, sanitize
“The US Department of Education is asking the public to share what they know about problems with cheating on standardized tests that are used to determine closings of schools and firings of teachers.
The problem is that they then plan to have a panel of “external experts” to review all of this information, sanitize
