National Computer Systems will reimburse
students and families for tuition costs,
but people looking for other damages resulting
from the scoring mistake on the state's basic
skills math test probably will face alegal battle.

. . .

NCS, based in Eden Prairie, made an error grading
the state's basic skills math test, resulting in
wrong scores for more than 47,000 students. Almost
8,000 were wrongly told they had failed, including
an estimated 50 to 54 seniors denied a high school
diploma last spring.

The mistake was discovered this summer but not
before many students started taking classes to
prepare for another shot at the test.

Pioneer Planet

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), September 03, 2000

Answers

This has been a very hot topic around here for quite some time. If memory serves me right from the local media reports, the grading errors were discovered by the parents of their failed child/teenager. Even with these errors, National Computer Systems has been awarded the contract to continue testing in the school year of 2000-2001.

-- Bill (Sticky@2side.tape), September 03, 2000.

Even with the exam chaos going on in
Scotland with the SQA, they will advise
a Middle East delegation on "how to run
an efficient examinations system." :-'

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), September 04, 2000.