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Who’s cheating now?
Remember all the controversy around TAKS scores and the Caveon analysis about possible cheating in 2006? Everybody Does It / Academic cheating is at an all-time high. Can anything be done to stop it? It used to be that cheating was done by the few, and most often they were the weaker students who couldn’t [...]
Who will be cheating now?
If you think there is cheating with the TAKS exam now, wait until you have end of the course exams. End-of-course tests go to Perry | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Texas Southwest In addition to determining whether a student graduates, the new exams also would count 15 percent toward the [...]
Why numbers alone don’t tell the story
If TAKS scores go up unexpectedly, you can be flagged for cheating when all you really did was, well, what you were supposed to do: MySA.com: KENS 5: Education: For example, Northside’s Pease Middle School was flagged for gains in eighth-grade math. But districts don’t know which individual student scores stood out. “If they gave [...]