[quote=AN]Interesting article. I can totally see teachers trying to cheat to get a bonus. But that to me is not a knock on the standardize test as much as some teachers/people willing to do anything for a few grand. A simple solution would be to have a SAT like test where teachers get removed from the testing site during the test taking period.
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Another way to do it is using statistics, as described in “Freakonomics” where cheating was proven (and teachers successfully fired) by looking at the rate of correct answers at the end of the test. One way teachers cheat is to fill in correct answers at the end of test for kids who didn’t finish – so the rate of correct answers on those last questions, when compared to the rest of the test, can prove that someone tampered. The authors of that book also seem to think the DC teachers are possibly cheating:
