me: "How did the test go today?"
BoyOne: "Good!" way more enthusiastically than I felt was appropriate for an eighth grader who is taking and testing on seventh grade math who is really at a fourth grade level.
me, skeptically: "Really?"
BoyOne: "Yeah, mom! I sit this boy and my friends and they say to me a, c, b."
me: "So, you cheated?"
BoyOne: "No! They say okay they help me. They no mad. Teacher say to me answers."
really people? thanks a lot for undoing what I have been working on for seven freaking months.
That sounds odd. I am writing this from school. Right now, I am in a room with one student who is taking the state standard tests. His tests are slightly modified but still by the book - the modified book printed and distributed by the state. There are, in this state, that I know of, three other modifications. One modification is that certain students do not take the official test; this is decided on a case-by-case basis. These students may not be required to take the test but (in our building) take a "practice" test. In my state, students cannot be given answers, and teachers cannot be given answers. Getting answers by any system other than one's own mind invalidates the testing process and makes lots of people cranky. But, maybe I wrongly assumed it was a state standard test. I have given answers to students in the past, though. I don't do it on a test or quiz but may when the student is supposed to be working on something a teacher has given the student, but the student absolutely doesn't know how to do what is being asked. Then, we have a teaching moment.
ReplyDeleteIf this is the CRT for Math, getting the answers from ANYONE is NOT allowed! As mentioned in the comment above, there are certain accommodations teachers are allowed to make for students with an IEP and/or 504, or who are ELL (English Language Learners). However, getting the answers from "friends" or anyone else isn't an accommodation. You may want to call the teacher...I know the CRT testing window for Utah is now open. I start my junior high English ones next week. Good luck Steph! :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously??? Holy cow.
ReplyDeleteThat is just wrong and how confusing for him. I hope you have some words with his teacher. I don't know if the teachers job is performance based and he's letting him cheat so he can keep his job but regardless, it sounds like Boy 1 might not have been the only one cheating.
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