By: Philip Nobile
The human factor will always produce small point differentials in grading. But blind grading is the best and no-brain response to the temptation to inflate scores of known students. The rest is detail,
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They will need to have unbiased grading auditors to keep everyone in check. I think it’s a good idea. We sometimes unconsciously grade our own students high. I agree that Regents scores especially...
View ArticleBy: Bluethezoom
There is really no appeal procedure. While a parent or student can appeal the grade to the school, the school, according to SED, cannot rescore or even look at the exam again without being subject to...
View ArticleBy: Daskala
I don’t mean to offend, but as an 8th grade English teacher I have suffered my students’ ELA short and extended writing responses graded by other teachers from other schools. Also, the “graders” were...
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Our school was also chosen. We had to listen to the phase out school teachers (who hate us passionately!) grading our students’ exams, and literally cheering aloud every time they could take a point...
View ArticleBy: Davon
Shipping the tests to other schools, I see some of them getting lost along the way. And if that happens, what the Department going to say, “Oops?” and tell them to take it over again?
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
Of course the DOE will make them take it over – of course after they blame the teachers and the school. DUH!
View ArticleBy: John
Comparing what high school and middle school teachers do to elementary schools is like comparing apples to oranges. We face completely different challenges on all levels. Yet the DOE is requiring...
View ArticleBy: Kelly
I took part in process thought it went great! Schools and teachers that were SCRUBBERS could no longer do so. That is the way it should be. Any teacher trying to lower another schools stats by...
View ArticleBy: Eckleburgtj
Oh please, for God’s sake…is it such a huge crime to bump up a kid’s score from 64 to 65? This is what we are talking about here! Show some humanity. We are talking about giving a few kids a chance in...
View ArticleBy: Philip Nobile
Affirmative tampering, what a great idea–graduating not a few but thousands of kids, mostly black and brown, who can’t pass Regents tests after intensive prepping. Open that door and you get a deluge...
View ArticleBy: Philip Nobile
Affirmative tampering, what a great idea–graduating not a few but thousands of kids, mostly black and brown, who can’t pass Regents tests after intensive prepping. Open that door and you get a deluge...
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Do you remember when students only needed a Regents score of 55 to pass? What about the students who got a 54 or 53? Would you like to lower it to a 45? Then we continue with the same lamentation of...
View ArticleBy: guest
Here’s the problem. If these exams were totally objective, that is there is no doubt about the scoring say all multiple choice or short answers with no part credit, I would agree. The standard has to...
View ArticleBy: Anx
question If it was your kid what do you think should be done with the grade? Lets say it was the best your child could do and not passing would hold your child from ever getting their high school...
View ArticleBy: Philip Nobile
The best case scrubbing you describe is the start of the slippery slope leading to today’s uncontrollable, widespread Regents tampering. Yes, there is great temptation to manufacture an extra point...
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Several points to you. Would “cheating” be so prevelent if the Regents were not being used in the warped way thgey are being used today? As I’ve said, they were never developed nor meant to be used...
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