Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
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Anonymous
legalized cheating? Is that a thing? |
Anonymous
No. They did not use the extra time to change the answers. I suppose in some cases maybe but the REAL key to the "racket" was using the accommodation along with a fake scheduling conflict to move the accommodated student to one of two facilities that CW-1 controlled (via bribes, part of the "racket"). By doing that, he could put his own brainy proctor in the room with the student alone, where they would either have the proctor take the test or help the student with answers. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
I thought the point of the bribe was you didn't have to actually come out and play. I think Loughlin's daughters should be frog marched to the boathouse and forced to row. |
Anonymous
NP. No snark, just would like to hear them. |
Anonymous
Yeah, they definitely look like power rowers. |
Anonymous
That would be truly hilarious. |
Anonymous
Smaller class sizes. More individual attention. Religious instruction/shared religious beliefs, if applicable. Classical education. |
Anonymous
+1. Wanted same sex education. |
Anonymous
Lol ok - yeah that makes sense if those attributes are continued in their college choice. Not when the kid ends up at Walmart style mega public / directional state. |
Anonymous
Before this scandal, u didn’t know such a thing existed, right? Unless u know the private schools scene where lots of $$$ go to,, you have no idea. When CB stopped flagging the score, wealthly parents saw this as a way to game the system. They have connectors and $$$ to get accommodations for their kids. In 2002, to avert further litigation, the College Board acted on the expert panel’s recommendation to end the practice of flagging scores. (Two weeks later, the other major college-admissions testing program, the ACT, adopted the same policy.) As of October 1, 2003, the Board will no longer note “Nonstandard Administration” on the scores of any students who take the SAT with extended time. This decision will have an immediate impact on students with disabilities who take the SAT with accommodations, presently 2 percent of the two million students who take the SAT each year. Extended time, the only accommodation flagged by the SAT, is by far the most widely used accommodation, received by nearly all students who obtain accommodations. It is the only accommodation that nearly every test-taker would take advantage of if possible (unlike, say, the exams with larger print that are given to visually impaired students). Since 1976, the population of students designated as having a “specific learning disability” has grown 300 percent; learning-disabled students now compose 50 percent of the special-education population. In turn, since 1987, the number of students taking the SAT with accommodations has grown by more than 300 percent, compared with an 18 percent increase in the test-taking population as a whole (according to an analysis of annual reports from ETS. See sidebar by Samuel Abrams on page 40). Once the alleged “stigma” of flagging is removed, this trend can be expected to continue-and perhaps increase significantly. The College Board’s unfortunate and puzzling action–an action that no court was likely to order if the case had gone to trial–deserves far more scrutiny than it has received so far. While private and without legal standing, this settlement involves giants in the testing industry and may have a chilling effect on validity and technical standards in the nation’s K-12 testing programs. |
Anonymous
Why do you appear to be shading William and Mary? |
Anonymous
| Just remove the time constraints for everyone in the testing |
Anonymous
She should stage it and post it to her you tube channel. I guarantee she sells a lot of advertising. |
Anonymous
| My research indicates that USC scores are 25% 1360, 75% 1540. That seems high to me. |