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The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), in conjunction with CTB-McGraw Hill, has completed a comprehensive study of wrong-to-right erasures on the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). This analysis was conducted at the classroom level of detail.  The study focused on total "erasures" per classroom and on "wrong to right" answer changes.

All grade levels (1-8) were reviewed in AYP subjects:  Reading, English/Language Arts and Mathematics. Using statistical analysis tools, classrooms were "flagged" that had erasures that were beyond 3 standard deviations above the state average. GOSA then grouped all classrooms by school and classified each school based on the percentage of classrooms flagged using the following descriptors:

*Clear- 0%-5% of Classrooms Flagged

*Minimal Concern- 6%-10% of Classrooms Flagged

*Moderate Concern- 11%-24% of Classrooms Flagged

*Severe Concern- 25% or more of Classrooms Flagged

Savannah-Chatham County public schools performed very well. Out of the 41 SCCPSS schools that administered CRCT, our results are as follows:

• 33 schools were “cleared”
• 7 schools were of “minimal concern”
    -Bartow, Butler, Gadsden, Garrison, Gould, Pulaski, and Thunderbolt
• 1 school was of “moderate concern”
    -Hodge
• None of our schools received a label of “severe concern.”

SCCPSS takes test security very seriously and as always, we will continue to work with our schools to provide the appropriate security during testing.

For additional information on this analysis, visit GOSA at http://www.gaosa.org