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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHen I was in HS, exams were returned.  I had a friend with a sibling 1 year older.  He had many of the exams we were taking since it was a smallish school.  Trust me returning exams is not really a great idea...and that was before the error of standardization.  Unless the county is going to rewrite the exams every year.[/quote]

Yes, [b]you rewrite exams every year.  It is that simple. [/b] And I also knew someone that did similar to what your friend did and it was a multiple choice test.  All the kids that cheated got zeros because they changed the answers around and all the kids were caught.  It seriously is not a lot parents are asking for.  Like another poster said, it is not rocket science here.  [/quote]

"Simple" is not the word I would use to describe rewriting county-wide exams every year so that they are comprehensive, comparable to previous years, and cheat-proof.[/quote]

+100. Do people know how much it costs to create, vet, and get approved even simple survey questions for a company?  Where there are no wrong answers?  People here complain all the time about poorly-phrased questions on tests.  It is not easy to construct unambiguous and clear questions (and answer keys) every year.[/quote]

That's such a pathetic argument.  It is not that hard. You just take the old one, change the numbers/variables, change the order in which the questions are asked, and voila, you've done it.
Somehow, my Podunk school managed to do this every year in the 1980s.  But MCPS is so much more sophisticated that it can't send tests home.[/quote]

+1. And if the students study the old tests so that they can do the new one with these changes, that is good enough for me. That is called learning. [/quote]

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