The Mississippi Department of Education announced Wednesday that it has invalidated some students’ results on state-mandated tests after an investigation found irregularities with how testing was conducted at 12 schools in five districts.
The department said results on most of the 934 tests were invalidated because of an extremely high level of similar responses and instances of answers being changed from wrong to right.
Problems were found at seven schools in Jackson; two schools in Hollandale; and one school each in Canton, Greenville and Wilkinson County.
“We recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of schools properly administer state assessments,” Ray Morgigno, interim state superintendent of education, said in a news release. “However, interference in state testing corrupts the integrity of the assessments and deprives students and families of receiving a true and accurate measure of student learning and achievement.”
The invalidated tests make up less than two-tenths of 1% of the 578,515 tests administered in the spring, the department said.
The department notified superintendents in the five districts about testing irregularities on Aug. 15 and gave them 15 working days to conduct an investigation.
Source : Djournal
