Friday, October 29, 2010

Ohio Schools Paying for Test Goofs

I was really struck by Ohio Schools Paying for Test Goofs by Jennifer Smith Richards on October 29, 2010. Ohio schools had to pay the state thousands of dollars because of broken shrink wrap, reading aloud a passage that should not have been, using calculators when they should not have, or for using dictionaries.
I had an experience today that really made me connect to this article. There was no problem as far as testing restrictions or violations, but as my school began to pack up the MEAP tests to send back, I was given a little bit of a scare. One of my student's answer documents were missing. The testing booklets were with the rest of the class, but as our administrator counted and counted, we could not find them. I was convinced that I had turned everything in and had it all together. Set into a panic, I did not know if I would have to retest this student all in one day? Would that be okay since he would have already seen the test? What type of trouble would the school be in if a student did not submit all areas of the test?
As we combed through all of the materials one more time, we discovered the missing answer documents sorted into the wrong pile. The sense of relief was amazing, but as I read this article I questioned would my school have had to pay thousands of dollars? Would some type of retesting of this student have to take place?

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