{"id":388,"date":"2011-08-04T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-08-04T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:14:51","slug":"will-florida-cheat-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/04\/will-florida-cheat-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Florida Cheat Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_393\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 151px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-393\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/04\/will-florida-cheat-too\/fred-grimm\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-393\" title=\"Fred Grimm\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/Fred-Grimm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Miami Herald<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Grimm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida is tempting cheating by basing teacher salaries on the results of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Fred Grimm opines in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/08\/03\/2344171\/tying-fcat-to-dollars-is-temptation.html\">Miami Herald today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers required school districts create <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/merit-pay\/\">pay-for-performance <\/a>systems where at least half a teacher&#8217;s evaluation is determined by an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/fcat\/\">FCAT<\/a> score. That sets Florida up for the same type of systematic cheating seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/investigation-into-aps-cheating-1001375.html\">Atlanta<\/a> and under investigation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/01\/education\/01winerip.html\">Pennsylvania<\/a> schools, Grimm argues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Merit raises (the only raises permissible under the new Florida law)  will ratchet up the temptation, warned Arizona State University  professor Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, who has spent years studying the  unintended consequences of high-stakes student testing. She said  Wednesday that \u201cit\u2019s pretty clear\u201d that the more consequences states tie  to the outcome of the standardized tests, particularly merit pay or  cash bonuses, the more cheating we\u2019re likely to see.<\/p>\n<p>Amrein-Beardsley  led a team that surveyed 3,000 Arizona teachers. In her study,  published last year, more than half admitted to manipulating the test  scores on the Arizona standardized tests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Do you agree with Grimm?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/08\/03\/2344171\/tying-fcat-to-dollars-is-temptation.html#ixzz1U4q6FdQp\"> <\/a>What other ways might FCAT and merit pay requirements change behavior?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/08\/03\/2344171\/tying-fcat-to-dollars-is-temptation.html#ixzz1U4q6FdQp\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is tempting cheating by basing teacher salaries on the results of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Fred Grimm opines in the Miami Herald today. Lawmakers required school districts create pay-for-performance systems where at least half a teacher&#8217;s evaluation is determined by an FCAT score. That sets Florida up for the same type of systematic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1019,1007,1016,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}