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April 7, 2015 Robert Schaeffer is public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Fair Test). He wrote this piece for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. By Robert Schaeffer The sad story of educators caught manipulating standardized exam scores has focused attention on one type of “fallout” from the testing explosion that […]

for further information: Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 for immediate release Thursday, January 22, 2015 WIDESPREAD SAT CHEATING CONTINUES IN ASIA;UPCOMING SAT. JANUARY 24 EXAM LIKELY COMPROMISED;COLLEGE BOARD, ETS ENABLE CHEATING BY REUSING OLD TESTS For the fourth SAT administration in a row, widespread cheating threatens the security of this Saturday’s college admissions exam in Asia. […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The ever-expanding list of test cheating cases demonstrates the extent to which the unfair high stakes testing regimes of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state-mandated exams are pushing teachers into unethical behavior. Among the states with instances of cheating are New York, New Jersey, Texas and Ohio. And even […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing School officials in Michigan and Maryland recently retreated from widely publicized allegations of cheating against teachers, clearing the majority of those suspected of all charges and significantly reducing disciplinary actions for others. Educators and parents involved in the cases complained that administrators overreacted to slim evidence and took a “shoot […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Across the nation, allegations of cheating and errors in exam construction, administration and scoring continue to proliferate, undermining confidence in the reliability of high stakes testing. ErrorsIn September, Pearson Educational Measurement Inc. offered five Virginia high school seniors $5000 college scholarships after incorrect scoring cost them their dilomas. Errors were […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing In her article, “Why Reading Tests Don’t Test Reading” (Dissent, Fall 1981), Deborah Meier noted that every year for five or six consecutive years, New York City faced a standardized test cheating scandal. With the stakes on tests continually rising, it is not surprising that such problems continue to appear. […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing K-12 Cheating The spring 2002 high-stakes testing season produced yet more cases of cheating by administrators, teachers and students (see Examiner, Spring 1999). For example: In Gary, Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress (ISTEP) results for hundreds of students were invalidated after Department of Education investigators concluded that some teachers […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Reports of cheating on state standardized exams are becoming much more frequent, and many observers see a clear link between such dishonest behaviors and the high-stakes pressures attached to tests by state policies and the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that since statewide […]

for further information: Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 mobile (239) 699-0468 for immediate release, Wednesday, February 22, 2017 NEW COLLEGE BOARD EXAM SECURITY RULESLEAVE SAT TEST FORM RECYCLING“BARN DOOR FOR CHEATERS” WIDE OPEN Additional security procedures for the SAT unveiled today fail to address a major cause of global test cheating — the reuse of questions […]

CONFIRMED CASES OF TEST-CHEATING (2009 – 2015) In the past five years cheating cases have been documented in 40 states plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Department of Defense schools, according to government and news media reports compiled by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest). Jurisdictions with schools whose unlikely score […]