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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Seven teacher licenses suspended amid state’s largest ISTEP cheating case

Jan 15, 2019 By Kara Kenney

Seven teacher licenses are now suspended following what the Indiana Department of Education is calling the largest ISTEP cheating case the state has ever seen.  The state’s investigation began when the test’s vendor Pearson alerted the Indiana Department of Education about irregularities at Frankie W. McCullough Academy for Girls in Gary following the 2017 ISTEP.

ISTEP, or Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress, is administered to students in grades 3 through 8 to measure skills like reading, writing and math.  The investigation found McCullough staff failed to follow prescribed testing protocols and did not maintain a secure testing environment.
“Eight sections of the ISTEP+ in grades 3-6 had abnormally high changes of answers from wrong to right,” state records showed. “Staff at McCullough had no explanation for how this could have occurred and did not report anything unusual during ISTEP+ administration.”............To Read More....

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