Answer 'C'

Hypothetical: You are a first-year MTC teacher.  While proctoring a state test another teacher comes in the room and tells the students, "Question 12 is tricky.  Be careful.  Answer 'c' is incorrect."  The teacher leaves and the students go back to the test, presumably not answering 'c' on question 12.  What do you do?


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ms. m
You report it (that is, if you are a designated proctor of the test) You never know if a state official is wandering around on test day, or what they might overhear. If you don't report it, the school will be in big, big trouble.

And, as an added bonus, if you report it, the kids will most likely get another week or two of class to prepare for the (make-up) test! Everybody wins!
Mississippi Teacher Corps
Report it to who? The school counselor (responsible for state testing at the school), the principal, the superintendent, or the state department?
ms. m
Well, if you are the official proctor, there is a little packet of official papers that the state department gives you. One has a form that you need to fill out for "incidents" with an exact protocol for what to do, where to send the forms, etc and so forth. So I would do that.
Mississippi Teacher Corps
Would your answer change if you were not the designated proctor but just a second teacher in the classroom helping to administer the test?
ms. m
Yes.
In that case, I would motion the official administrator to the doorway, tell her/him that I think that they should fill out an incident report form, and when the next teacher comes to relieve me at the end of my planning block, leave without looking back or feeling guilty -- that's all I can do, because the designated proctor and the designated administrator are the only two allowed to make the judgement call to fill out the form.

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