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Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Test Stress and Cheating
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Donsky, my fellow edugeek at the ajc, is penning your Get Schooled post today. Please give him some good feedback.
Test scores from the all-important CRCT are due back soon. Much is riding on them, from whether a kid gets promoted to a school’s reputation. So much, in fact, that some educators bend the rules or out-and-out cheat to push scores up.
Stories about teacher cheating have cropped up in recent years. Most notably: a low-income elementary school in Houston praised for its good test scores turned out to be cheating en masse. Those recent revelations led to a state-wide investigation to root out other cases.
No high-profile cheating case has emerged in Georgia, though the state has sanctioned some 159 educators for test administration problems in the last five years. It’s hard to know how widespread cheating is.
Do you think it’s happening at your school? Your child’s school? How common is it? What strategies are out there for the overstressed, resourceful educator?
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