Cheating on state standardized test.

educationweek

Dozens of schools across the nation were flagged in a study from 2009, that state standardized test scores that sought to use statistical analysis to ferret out possible examples of cheating on the PSSA exam.Now, this just happen in Atlanta, Ga. Most of our schools have very low test scores but, is this a reason to cheat. Why not just teach the information.I am so tired of this topic. In most of our schools, teachers are teaching standardized test concepts for understanding. How is this helping our children? It is not, helping our students at all. These students dont know how to read or write. It is hurting tham when they get to places of higher learning. This is killing the education system.

They did a study of the Pennsylvania Department of education.The analysis, prepared for the Pennsylvania Department of Education in July 2009, highlights roughly 60 schools with suspicious results due to multiple statistical irregularities, including 22 Philadelphia district schools and seven Philadelphia charters.So, are they saying that these schools are cheating on the test. If anything,this is talking about the schools in the enter city. Among the Philadelphia district schools referenced in the report is Roosevelt Middle School, which has been at the center of a controversy this year involving alleged cheating on the PSSA.
An enter-city school that has been felling state test for many years.

In 2009, the analysis reveals, results of both the reading and math PSSA exams taken by Roosevelt's 7th and 8th graders showed a highly unlikely number of wrong answers that were erased and changed to the correct answer. The results also showed highly improbable increases over the previous year in the percentage of students that scored higher on these test.This sounds like the same thing that just happen in Ga. People let teach our students and make sure taht they have the best education we can give.This makes me mad, it is time for the education department to step up.Let's not just let anything fly anymore.