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Teachers are noticing suspiciously high reading levels among students during STAR testing and are concerned about potential cheating. They need better methods or tools to detect cheating during these assessments.
Idk if this should technically be under Classroom Management, but whatever. So, in previous years, my school only used STAR testing in middle school. However, they brought it up to grade 10 (my grade, lucky me) two years ago. The first two years were fine, but I had a small number of students make odd jumps. Mostly, I had students who were STARed out and just rushed. Well, their results are now going into my performance record, so now I take it seriously and make them take it again if they rush and threaten homework for review. They are trying harder, which is good…but now I have a suspicious number of student reading at post high school level. I tried to catch them cheating when they took it last week, but nothing! I had my Chromebook monitor up and made sure I was always behind them as they took it. Is there an extension or something helping these kids cheat? Or is the STAR test worthless and not accurate whatsoever? Or possibly I am the greatest teacher of all time???? If there are ways to cheat the STAR specifically, outside of googling answers, what do I look for?