HISD: two teachers will be fired for TAKS cheating
An HISD investigation has determined that two teachers did help students on a TAKS test:
The two fifth grade teachers were fired after a two month investigation at Sanderson Elementary School for cheating on the TAKS test. The principal at that school has been demoted to an assistant principal, and will be relocated to a different school.
HISD began the investigation after it was brought to their attention that Sanderson Elementary fifth graders had the highest math scores in the state after the TAKS test last April. After checking the scores from the year before, it was found that students on average had gotten 12 to 13 questions wrong out of a total of 40 questions. Many of the students at Sanderson this year got perfect scores. HISD says that was statistically improbable.
HISD Spokesperson Terry Abbott explained, "That means that many of the students in those two classes got every single question on the TAKS test right, which is virtually impossible for that many students to get every question right. That raised a red flag that someone might have been helping them."
RELATED COVERAGE: KHOU-11, KPRC-2, Chronicle
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 02/17/05 06:57 PM | Print |
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