Re:Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores
by tansey on Friday June 11, 2010 @10:09AM
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Seems like there is a need for an independent third-party group to monitor the tests. Since that is likely prohibitively expensive, here's an idea:
1) Have schools partner with each other, where each school is matched to another school of similar size.
2) Extend the testing into twice as long periods (e.g., if it was a 1-day test, now the test period is 2 days).
3) Have partner schools test on opposite period halves.
4) Have partner schools give students the day(s) off on the non-test half.
5) Have schools send their teachers to their partner schools to monitor all the tests.
Now, this isn't fool-proof. It's possible that teachers across multiple schools could collude. It would be crucial to mix teacher pairs up so that if A monitors B then B does not monitor A, thus requiring a multi-way collusion that involves many participants.
1) Have schools partner with each other, where each school is matched to another school of similar size.
2) Extend the testing into twice as long periods (e.g., if it was a 1-day test, now the test period is 2 days).
3) Have partner schools test on opposite period halves.
4) Have partner schools give students the day(s) off on the non-test half.
5) Have schools send their teachers to their partner schools to monitor all the tests.
Now, this isn't fool-proof. It's possible that teachers across multiple schools could collude. It would be crucial to mix teacher pairs up so that if A monitors B then B does not monitor A, thus requiring a multi-way collusion that involves many participants.