Thousands of state test results were scored incorrectly by NWEA, the company Mississippi hired to provide and process state standardized tests.
Vendor scored thousands of state tests incorrectly, MDE finds by Violet Jira, Mississippi Today August 2, 2024 Spring 2024 preliminary state test results reported to districts across the state were scored incorrectly according to the Mississippi Department of Education, leading the agency to end a contract with the company responsible for the error.
This put a squeeze on central offices across the state, who had to process the test results for a second time, in a fraction of the time. “It was extra work. There’s no way to deny that. The way I viewed it and tried to get across to our department is that we’re just after the correct results. Whatever the correct results are, are what we need,” Kuykendall said. “But I can’t pretend that it didn’t make our administrative schedule very difficult and tight.
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