The database company that was involved in the missing MEAP problem a while back admits culpability - but says that it wasn't the only one at fault:
The company that set up a student database for standardized test scores said Wednesday it made mistakes, but it isn't the only one responsible for the delayed test scores.
The state Senate Education Committee took testimony Wednesday as part its ongoing effort to determine why Michigan Educational Assessment Program test scores were delayed by several months. The MEAP scores didn't go out to schools until late August, and many educators were upset they didn't have the results sooner...
Some state officials have pointed to Enterprises Computing Services Inc., which developed the database that links an individual student with his or her test information, as the cause of the delay...
"It is not right and it is not appropriate to hang the whole thing on us," Hari Iyer, chief executive of Woodstock, Ga.-based Enterprises, told the committee. "I'll admit we made a mistake. We corrected it at our expense," Iyer said...
Enterprises said it expected to receive test scores in March, but didn't until June 12. The tests were scored by a different company, Durham, N.C.-based Measurement Inc. Officials from Measurement Inc. said they didn't receive the last batch of tests from schools until late April. Iyer and Kevin Ireland, national sales manager for Enterprises, also suggested that the state's MEAP office is understaffed.
So the schools were late in sending the tests, the scoring company was late in sending the scores, and the database company had a glitch in their problem. A cavalcade of errors, it seems.
Posted by kswygert at September 22, 2003 11:15 AM