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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was teaching middle schoolers before cell phones were in the hand of every child, I gave different versions of tests to different classes. Every question wasn’t different, but where I could make changes, I did.

Even before phones, we had kids telling later periods what was on the test. It is more work for the teacher, which sucks, but seems like it should be SOP. FWIW the most I had was 4 sections of a single subject[/quote]

Do you know how many versions there would have to be?

There are 17 sections of algebra 2 at my school.  If we simplify it to say each class section doesn't need it's own test, only the period (so all 1st period classes take the same one), that's 7 versions.  But then there are always, ALWAYS absent students. How many additional versions do I need for them?  The one who takes it the following day in the remediation block gets version 8. The one who takes it after school gets version 9. The one who missed the whole week gets version 10.

And then the retakes start.  So there's 10 more versions.

At the end of the day the best I can do is change the numbers, but a kid can still leave my room and tell their buddy there is a word problem about parabolic motion.  I can't change the content of the exams and still have them be fair/equivalent.

Right now, we make 4 versions of every test. 2 for the initial testing, 1 for late students, and one as the retake.  That's as good as it's going to get unless you want everything to be created by AI and be multiple choice.[/quote]

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