To satisfy annual targets and AYP, test answer sheets were altered, fabricated, and falsely certified.
The College Board, which administers the test, said yesterday that 7,800 of the 550,000 test answer sheets en route to its scoring center in Princeton, N.J., were missing.
To aid in investigations, it recommended that the state consider keeping test answer sheets for longer than a year before destroying them.
It has released detailed annual test results and, in response to Freedom of Information requests, given journalists evidence of tampering found in test answer sheets in more than 100 schools.
The memo, disclosed by John Merrow, the education correspondent for "NewsHour" on PBS, was written by a consultant hired by the Washington school system to investigate data that showed a high number of test answer sheets on which wrong answers had been erased and changed to correct answers.
This is found on the AP exam answer sheet.
Maridyth McBee, interim assistant state superintendent, told The Oklahoman that the state randomly inspects testing classrooms and conducts erasure analyses on exam answer sheets, but it's difficult to catch everything.
Life isn't a test with an answer sheet: it's just something that we have to do for ourselves and we can't hold other people to our standards.
2. Copying of or from works intended to be "consumable" in the course of study or of teaching such as workbooks, exercises, standardized tests and answer sheets and like material.
Pilot testing of answer sheets was done by a senior ED nurse who was not invited to participate in our study.
