
The AJC has a database from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement showing results from the 2009 CRCT cheating scandal.
From the article:
The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement released official results from their investigation into cheating on the state 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT).
Public school students in grades 1-8 are required to take the CRCT in reading, English and math. Students in grades 3-8 also take science and social studies exams.
The investigation scanned all test takers’ answer documents to detect erasures, flagging classrooms with wrong-to-right changes that fell well above the state average.
Two local elementary schools, Austin and Vanderlyn, have classes flagged.
At Vanderlyn, a 5th grade Language Arts class with 23 students was flagged (66 answers changed from wrong to right).
At Austin, three classes were flagged. All three were from Grade 3.
In both cases, these two schools fell well below the state average in regards to classes flagged. These incidents could be the case of cheating teachers, a cheating administrator, or simply classes with students who changed answers (to the correct answer) at a higher percentage than average.
No classes were flagged at Chesnut, Kingsley, or Peachtree Middle School.
Here's another story on the issue, saying teachers are not likely to blame. I hope this is simply a case of kids who like to erase at a higher rate than average.
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