In yet another case of improper scoring ETS must pay $11.1 to teachers covering lost wages, mental anguish and the like. This is not the first instance of ETS (or for that matter, other testing publishers) incompetent handling of test scoring. Not long ago in a widely reported story, ETS was guilty of improperly scoring a large batch of SAT tests thereby denying many students admission to the college or university of their choice.
In Illinois the publisher of the ISAT failed to deliver the tests to many school districts in the state in a timely manner.
This series of errors raises an important question in my mind. If scoring and delivery are significant issues, if management is so incompetent as to allow these types of errors, then how can we be so sure that they exercise competence in the construction of their tests. Incompetence breeds incompetence, greed is never satisfied. Since the testing industry has grown in the past few years can we be sure that tests are being developed along accepted psychometric principles? Are corners being cut just to meet deadlines for No Child Left Behind commitments? Can we trust the testing industry that cannot deliver on time and cannot accurately score tests of their own making? I wish I had the answers!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
ETS Pays $11.1 Million to Settle Teacher Test Lawsuit
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