California’s honor system for high-stakes testing
By Kathryn Baron/Thoughts on Public Education
Nancy Dianna Jones may be among a handful of California educators who have read and absorbed all 143 pages of the state manual that spells out the rules for administering the STAR test and other high-stakes exams. Jones is administrator of support services for the Encinitas Union School District in north San Diego County, where she’s coordinated the standardized testing program for about seven years. She is emphatic when discussing the measures taken to ensure the integrity of standardized test results in the district. “I do probably a good two-hour training for each of our site coordinators,” she said. (more...)