Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Number 2 Pencil
Number 2 Pencil: "Not OK in Oklahoma
An unacceptable error: The teacher's manuals for the Oklahoma state standardized exams contain several wrong answers to sample questions.
The testing company, Harcourt Educational Measurement, realized April 8 that some of the answers to sample questions were wrong. The company then notified schools by e-mail and fax after 5 p.m. Friday.
On Monday morning -- just before tests started -- many schools were scrambling to replace pages in the test administration manuals with new pages that had the correct answers to sample questions.
'I received numerous calls from teachers who questioned the credibility of the actual tests based on the number of incorrect answers in the sample questions,' said Kathy Dodd, director of student achievement for Union Public Schools.
As well they should."
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It's sad but this isn't the first time something like this has happened - and, especially when it's students taking the tests, it only confuses them further.
An unacceptable error: The teacher's manuals for the Oklahoma state standardized exams contain several wrong answers to sample questions.
The testing company, Harcourt Educational Measurement, realized April 8 that some of the answers to sample questions were wrong. The company then notified schools by e-mail and fax after 5 p.m. Friday.
On Monday morning -- just before tests started -- many schools were scrambling to replace pages in the test administration manuals with new pages that had the correct answers to sample questions.
'I received numerous calls from teachers who questioned the credibility of the actual tests based on the number of incorrect answers in the sample questions,' said Kathy Dodd, director of student achievement for Union Public Schools.
As well they should."
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It's sad but this isn't the first time something like this has happened - and, especially when it's students taking the tests, it only confuses them further.
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