Florida Officials Ask District To Investigate High Number Of Test Erasures

The Florida Times-Union (6/17, Palka) reports that Florida "education officials have asked Duval County Public Schools to investigate test documents with 'extremely unusual levels of erasures' at one school." The state sent similar notifications to 13 other districts. Statistical analysis of tests "was based on an examination of the rates of answers being changed from wrong to right, while also taking into account other erasure types, according to a template memo sent to the districts. The erasure rate was at least at a 'level of erasures that would be expected to occur once in a trillion times when tests are taken under standardized conditions,' according to the memo, which was dated June 9."