Wow, the distribution of scores on this exam ought to be interesting:
A group of student activists opposed to international standard testing launched another effort this week to foil a national mathematics examination. They almost succeeded, with the help of the Internet. The activists got hold of the math exam Monday and put it out on the Internet, thus enabling a sneak peak at what 10th graders were supposed to see for the first time in class on Tuesday. State officials immediately said the test would be administered anyway.The student activists tried to foil the examination attempt because they want state authorities to postpone the national math exam until next year. They also don't want to see exam results publicized on a school-by-school or township-by-township basis....[they] also...want the content of the exam to reflect Norwegian teaching plans, not those of researchers at the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
The test was to be administered to around 60,000 10th graders on Tuesday. At least 10,000 of them are believed to have seen the test by early Tuesday morning.
Time for the Norweigan Education Ministry to up its security. They might not want to use this year's scores for any comparisons purposes, either.
Posted by kswygert at March 16, 2005 02:20 PM