Testing behavior

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 25844515282     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400904     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Professional Standards Comm'n v. Smith, 571 S.E.2d 443 (Ga. Ct. App. 2002). I obtained supplementary Information via telephone interviews in early February 2003 with attorneys Alfred Evans and Hayes M. Dever, who represented the commission and the teacher respectively.
2. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, "Tabular Analysis of the Case Law Concerning High Stakes Testing," West's Education Law Reporter, vol. 143, 2000, pp. 697-716.
3. Perry A. Zirkel, "An Unprincipled Arrangement?," Phi Delta Kappan, November 1999, pp. 248-49;
4. and idem, "Testing the Limits or Limiting the Tests?," Phi Delta Kappan, December 1998, pp. 331-32.
5. Hanes v. Board of Educ., 783 A.2d 1 (Conn. 2001) (upheld termination of teacher for tampering with students' scores); and Buck v. Lowndes County Sch. Dist., 761 So.2d 144 (Miss. 2000) (upheld nonrenewal for irregularities in test administration). For another Georgia case that largely paralleled Smith, see Professional Standards Comm'n v. Denham, 555 S.E.2d 920 (Ga. Ct. App. 2001).
6. Murray v. Educational Testing Serv., 170 F.3d 514 (5th Cir. 1999) (no breach of contract when test administrator investigated irregularities in good faith); and Mindel v. Educational Testing Serv., 559 N.Y.S.2d 95 (Sup. Ct. 1990) (proctor's action in investigating irregularities of another student warranted mandatory makeup).
7. Educational Testing Serv. v. Simon, 95 F. Supp. 2d 1081 (C.D. Cal. 1999) (violation of copyright and unfair competition statutes).
8. Ex parte Alabama State Tenure Comm'n, 825 So.2d 805 (Ala. 2001) (remanded for separate hearings for two teachers charged with cheating); and Brown v. South Carolina State Bd. of Educ., 391 S.E.2d 866 (S.C. 1990) (violation of due process to cancel teacher's passing score and revoke her license without a hearing).
9. Wood v. National Computer Sys., 643 F. Supp. 1093 (W.D. Ark. 1986) (rejected claims of invasion of privacy and negligent infliction of emotional distress).