LAC 28:XI.5309. Erasure Analysis and Online Answer Changes [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.309]

A. To investigate erasures on student answer documents of the state testing programs, the SBESE and the LDE have developed the following procedures. 1. Scoring contractors scan every answer document for wrong-to-right erasures. The state average and standard deviation are computed for each subject at each grade level. 2. Students whose wrong-to-right erasures exceed the state average by more than four standard deviations are identified for further investigation. For each student with excessive erasures, the proportion of wrong-to-right erasures to the total number of erasures is considered. 3. Based on the criteria for excessive wrong-to-right erasures, scoring contractors produce the following reports. a. District/School Erasure Analysis Report. This report identifies districts and schools within the districts whose answer documents have excessive wrong-to-right erasures. b. Student Erasure Analysis Report. This report identifies individual students whose answer documents have excessive wrong-to-right erasures. The answer documents of students identified as having excessive wrong-to-right answers are available for review at the LDE upon request. 4. Once districts, schools, and individual students have been identified, the state superintendent of education sends letters to district superintendents stating that students in those districts have been identified as having excessive wrong-to-right erasures. Copies of the district/school and student erasure analysis reports are enclosed with the letters. Copies of the correspondence are provided to the coordinator of test security. 5. A summary report of erasure analysis irregularities will be presented to BESE after each test administration.