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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I helped administer the CogAT at my FCPS school last week.  Here are examples of prepping:

"Ms. ______, my mommy and I practice paper folding and cutting holes and unfolding after dinner every night.  It's fun!"

"Ms. _______, I have something to tell you. My daddy printed out this test on his printer at work.  It's just the same - ducks on the top of the page!"

Yes, you can spend hours paper folding at he to help with that section of the CogAT, and, sure, you could buy it online and have your kid take it.  But then it's completely invalid.  What the hell is the point of that?[/quote]

Just curious, the second example sounds like the child was prepped with a copy of the actual test because I doubt a test prep company would randomly have ducks on the top of the page and the actual test also have that.  Why doesn't FCPS secure the test better.  I thought this was why the test was changed to a FCPS specific test instead of the regular CogAT.[/quote]

Why should FCPS have to secure the test better? Should we really have to operate from a place where the expectation is that adults will look for a way to help second graders (!) cheat on a test and then find ways to keep said adults from acquiring copies of the same or essentially similar tests ahead of time? How crazy is it that we should place the burden on FCPS to keep adults from helping children to cheat?
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If FCPS is relying on a test to determine who will get a service, then one would hope they would be careful about securing the test.  What the pp described sounded like the child had the actual test, not a third party prep material.  Also, if they aren't securing the actual test, why waste taxpayer money on getting a special form of the test?[/quote]

So, are you saying that it is the fault of FCPS if adults find a way to cheat by showing kids material that is so similar to the test that the child says that his dad had already shown him a copy of the same test? Are you saying that FCPS should just expect that adults will cheat? Whatever happened to parents teaching their children about integrity and honesty? 
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