‘Unusual Patterns’ On High-Stakes CPS Exam: Your Questions Answered – WBEZ Chicago

The inspector general found a “connection” between students with unusually large test gains and excessive test length and pauses.  But school district officials put out a counter analysis looking at all test scores, not just high growth, and found no correlation between time taken on the exam or pauses and the results. This counter analysis led board members to conclude the report was faulty and to discount it.
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Platinum Goose
6 years ago

“the teacher whose evaluation is partly based on the students’ results — was proctoring the test”, Nah, no cheating going on here.

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