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Pearson Boycott News: NY State Tosses 4th Pearson Test Question in 4 Weeks
Obviously, $32,000,000 is not enough to get Pearson to hire test writers who know more than the students they are testing.
From NYTimes SchooBook:
From NYTimes SchooBook:
May 2, 2012, 12:34 p.m.
For the fourth time within a month, state education officials have tossed out a question on the standardized tests after finding that errors by Pearson, the test maker, made the problem virtually impossible for students to solve.
The question, which appeared on the fifth-grade math exam, was administered in a trial-run last year and vetted by teachers. Yet it was not until after it was included on a real test last month that teachers found and reported a
