SEATTLE (AP) — Washington has good measures in place to prevent cheating on school tests, but it fails to conduct the types of post-test analysis that other states routinely use to detect cheating, The Seattle Times reported Sunday.
The state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction doesn't look for erasure patterns on student answer sheets that suggest someone changed wrong answers to right ones — as dozens of teachers and principals in Atlanta are accused of doing. Nor does it look for improbably high gains in a school's scores or look for other suspicious results, such as a class full of students with identical answers.
Instead, The Times wrote (http://is.gd/yi78AE ), Washington relies on whistle-blowers to report wrongdoing and on school districts to police themselves — an approach national testing experts describe as inadequate, especially as many states start using test scores to...
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