Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXI - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
Chapter 3 - Test Security
Section CXI-309 - Erasure Analysis
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CXI-309
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. To investigate erasures on student answer documents for the multiple-choice portions of the state criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing programs, the SBESE and the LDE have developed the following procedures.
1. Scoring contractors scan every answer
document for wrong-to-right erasures, and the state average and standard
deviation are computed for each subject at each grade level.
2. Students whose wrong-to-right erasures
exceed the state average by more than four standard deviations are identified
for further investigation. For each student with excessive erasures, the
proportion of wrong-to-right erasures to the total number of erasures is
considered.
3. Based on the
criteria for excessive wrong-to-right erasures, scoring contractors produce the
following reports.
a. District/School Erasure
Analysis Report. This report identifies districts and schools within the
districts whose answer documents have excessive wrong-to-right
erasures.
b. Student Erasure
Analysis Report. This report identifies individual students whose answer
documents have excessive wrong-to-right erasures. The answer documents of
students identified as having excessive wrong-to-right answers are available
for review at the LDE upon request.
4. Once districts, schools, and individual
students have been identified, the state superintendent of education sends
letters to district superintendents stating that students in those districts
have been identified as having excessive wrong-to-right erasures. Copies of the
district/school and student erasure analysis reports are enclosed with the
letters. Copies of the correspondence are provided to the Deputy Superintendent
of Education, the Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Student and School
Performance, the Director of the Division of Assessments and Accountability,
and the district test coordinator.
5. The local superintendent must investigate
the case of the irregularity and provide a report of the investigation and a
written plan of action to the state superintendent of education within 30
calendar days.
6. A summary report
of erasure analysis irregularities will be presented to the SBESE after each
test administration.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24 et seq.
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