Spy on students’ social media–says Washington State’s assessment consortium
March 16, 2015
Yesterday, we posted that Pearson which administers the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common Core Assessments spied on students’ social media and wanted to suspend a student whom they thought had breached test security.
Now it has come out that the other of the two Common Core assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), is also advising state education departments to spy on student social media. Washington State is a member of the Smarter Balanced consortium.
See Smarter Balanced Assessment’s guidance sheet.
(Photo- courtesy of photoexplorer at FreeDigitalPhotos.net)
Yesterday, we posted that Pearson which administers the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common Core Assessments spied on students’ social media and wanted to suspend a student whom they thought had breached test security.
Now it has come out that the other of the two Common Core assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), is also advising state education departments to spy on student social media. Washington State is a member of the Smarter Balanced consortium.
See Smarter Balanced Assessment’s guidance sheet.
(Photo- courtesy of photoexplorer at FreeDigitalPhotos.net)