This Week In Education: Update: Test Security Company Responds To Rhee Claims

This Week In Education: Update: Test Security Company Responds To Rhee Claims:

Update: Test Security Company Responds To Rhee Claims

Caveon Test Security has responded via email to the claim made in tomorrow's Frontline piece on Michelle Rhee that it did not go as far as it could have.

In the Frontline piece, Rhee says "We just hired them to do the investigation and really believed that they were going to do it in as comprehensive a manner as possible."

In an email statement pasted below, Caveon states that while there were some topics that DC schools were not asked by OSSE to provide (and thus could not be addressed by Caveon), "Caveon has such a full tool kit that virtually all of our clients use only part of our services."  

According to Caveon's John Fremer, President of Consulting Services, " Caveon has such a full tool kit that virtually all of our clients use only part of our services. It is not appropriate to say that fault should be assigned to a client for using some of our services and not others."  

DC Schools were not asked by OSSEto perform additional analyses and was not provided with test item by test item data that would be needed to perform some of the most important analyses. So the district could not do its own in-depth statistical analyses for the classes with high erasure rates or