Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Thousands of city school students got a sneak peek at dozens of questions on two exams last month — a scenario that has baffled testing experts, outraged local officials and raised concerns about the validity of the exams and the Rochester School District’s method of test preparation.
The multiple-choice questions appeared in review materials produced by the district and issued to teachers to prep seventh- and eighth-graders for their final social-studies exams, one of four required district exams.
“I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like this unless there was a leak or an error, and I’ve been doing this for 35 years,” said Joseph Pedulla, an associate professor of education and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy at Boston College.
District officials could not say how many of the 4,329 students who took the exams had also participated in the review sessions or received copies of the materials. But those who did so were drilled on multiple-choice questions and answers that were identical to and presented in the same sequence as those on the tests…
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