Schools: No evidence of cheating on Pennsylvania standardized tests

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Schools: No evidence of cheating on Pennsylvania standardized tests

Saturday, August 13, 2011
By Jonathan D. Silver, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Several southwestern Pennsylvania school districts flagged for irregularities in a recently discovered analysis of 2009 standardized test data said Friday they have uncovered no evidence of cheating.

Monday is the deadline for those schools and dozens of others in Pennsylvania whose problematic results could indicate cheating to submit their findings to the state Department of Education.

As of late Thursday, about half of the schools had responded. No district had reported cheating, according to department spokesman Tim Eller.

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Local districts offered a variety of explanations for the flags raised by a forensic data analysis of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams conducted in 2009 for grades three through eight and 11.

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