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It was shown that students who had been informed about the benefits of answer changing when in doubt changed answers significantly more often than students who had not been informed.
To answer the question whether students changed answers more frequently after having been given the advice to do so, the respective changing behaviour of the two groups needs to be analysed.
One cracked egg led to the next, and within two weeks, five teachers plus the testing coordinator, Milagros Moner, had confessed that they had changed answers to raise the school's scores.
They changed answers on completed tests for fear that otherwise their school would not make "adequate yearly progress", as required by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
The teachers now changed answers in the chorus room, because they didn't want to raise the suspicions of the testing coördinator, who noticed that someone had been in his office and had changed the lock.
The State Education Department flagged Tapco after an analysis of the school's trigonometry Regents exams in 2010 found unusually high rates of erasures — instances where incorrect answers had been erased and corrected; erasures can be a sign that students were coached or that teachers changed answers.
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One group was informed that they ought to change answers they had given with the explanation that when in doubt, changing an answer once is statistically beneficial.
"No change" answers ranging between 73% and 89% demonstrate a high degree of satisfaction with the current therapy.
The advice to scrutinize and change answers, when in doubt, is recommended as students heed the advice.
To answer the question whether students heed the advice to change answers after reconsidering, the students were randomized into two groups.
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