Twelve Schools Cited For Suspect Test Results - D.C. Wire - News and notes on District politics
I guess they really needed to check it out before all of the students test scores are considered suspect.

Twelve Schools Cited For Suspect Test Results
District officials have asked 12 public and public charter schools with irregularities in their 2009 DC-CAS standardized test results to conduct internal investigations.
That little news nugget was tucked into the seventh paragraph of a joint statement by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and State Superintendent of Education Kerri Briggs--released shortly after 6 p.m. Monday--announcing "improved and strengthened test integrity measures" that will be in place for the 2010 exams in March.
Fenty and Briggs said the names of the schools would not be released during the ongoing investigations.
The new test protocols--which include training for exam administrators--come after disclosure in September that Briggs' predecessor, Deborah Gist, had commissioned an investigation into the 2008 DC-CAS results at 26 public and public charter schools where reading and math proficiency increased markedly. That inquiry was based on "anomalies" discovered during an analysis of incorrect student answers that were erased and changed to correct answers.
CTB-McGraw-Hill, the firm that published the test and also conducted the erasure analysis, characterized the results of the analysis as "inconclusive." Gist nevertheless asked the schools in question to conduct their own investigations. Some did, but DCPS, despite two requests from Gist's office, did not. When Briggs took over in April, she informed DCPS that the probe wasn't necessary because the erasure analysis was inconclusive.
I guess they really needed to check it out before all of the students test scores are considered suspect.



