34 N.J. schools investigated for possible cheating [View All]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Thirty-four schools in New Jersey are being investigated for possible cheating after an examination of standardized test data revealed irregularities and raised questions, the state Department of Education said.

State education officials said some schools showed especially high deviations from the normal amount of wrong test answers being erased and a right one marked.

Since 2008 the New Jersey Department of Education has had the state's assessment contractor, Measurement Inc., provide reports on erasure patterns at schools and at each grade level. These reports show the number of times answers on standardized test forms are erased and changed.

The 34 schools now under investigation showed erasures from wrong to right two to five times as often as the state average, state school officials said. According to the reports, 25 district and charter schools were found to have these high averages in at least one grade level, while nine schools had abnormally high levels of erasure schoolwide.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/21/new.jersey.schools.cheating/index.html

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