BALTIMORE —Two Maryland students have been caught cheating on a new test tied to the Common Core standards.
Education officials said they learned earlier this month that the students posted test questions to their Twitter accounts. The state is not naming the students, identifying their schools or saying what might happen to them.
The 10th-grade students were taking the statewide English test when they apparently took pictures of the test questions and posted them on Twitter. The tweets were noticed by the testing company using software designed to find keywords and phrases. It wasn't long before state school officials got word of what had taken place.
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2 comments:
Why would you need to cheat on this , 2+2= anything you want
Students taking pictures of quizzes and tests and sharing those with their peers is not news. It's just not seen as important until it's the PARCC test that's being compromised. School systems don't want to deal with student and parent upset when phones are not allowed to be used during class time so we take the path of least resistance. Kids cheat but office referrals are down.
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