Grading Problems With Regents Exams Delay Some Diplomas.

[mbperrin]

3. They already specified they just had a "feeling" some teachers might be

too lenient.

I don't know anyone who tracks later achievement at all, much less a longitudinal study like the one you propose.

Our district gives benchmarks, too. One year, they used the wrong key, and no student got more than 10% correct. Instead of alarm bells, they blithely gave the scores to students two days before the state exams, so they could despair of their chances of passing.

Really complicated, of course - the test said form A, and the key said form D after I had to threaten mayhem in order to get one.

Damage was done - the administrator failed upward, of course, as they always do - he's now the CATE director for a local college.