On: A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions ...

[rando289]

> From what this guy describes, "test prep" sounds like "educating students".

It's educating them in the wrong things. For example, goal of class: better thinker by learning to do multiplication. Because of test, they only learned memorizing multiplication tables.

[yummyfajitas → rando289]

The tests ask for multiplying 3 digit numbers. That's a lot of memorizing.

[octo_t → yummyfajitas]

that was a simple example. A better example might be memorizing quotes from a book to regurgitate in the test*

* (I had to do this as part of GCSE English in the UK - I expect a similar situation in the US)

[yummyfajitas → octo_t]

Why don't you look at the real tests and see if such tricks are possible?