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FreakonomicsAnd on all fifteen tests, the six correct answers are followed by the same incorrect answer, a 4. Why on earth would a cheating teacher go to the trouble of erasing a studentБЂ™s test sheet and then fill in the wrong answer? Perhaps she is merely being strategic. In case she is caught and hauled into the principalБЂ™s office, she could point to the wrong answers as proof that she didnБЂ™t cheat. Or perhapsБЂ”and this is a less charitable but just as likely answerБЂ”she doesnБЂ™t know the right answers herself. (With standardized tests, the teacher is typically not given an answer key.) If this is the case, then we have a pretty good clue as to why her students are in need of inflated grades in the first place: they have a bad teacher. Another indication of teacher cheating in classroom A is the classБЂ™s overall performance. As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. (Fifth graders taking the test in the eighth month of the year needed to score 5.8, seventh graders 7.8, and so on.) The students in classroom A averaged 5.8 on their sixth-grade tests, which is a full grade level below where they should be ...» |
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