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...team--educational writer Anne Wheelock,Boston College Professor Walter Haney and SalemState Professor Clarke Fowler--published a reportcritiquing the MECT as unreliable, citing a highmargin of error, a huge variance between readingand writing scores and test administrationtroubles...
...Fowler says it is the MECT specifically,and not testing as a concept, that he objects...
...Fowler, along with the report's co-authors,points to NES's lack of pre-testing or externalreview as its major problems...
...report, Fowler and his co-authorsalso bring up the questionable work of NES inconducting a state teacher test in Alabama...
...despite the lack of access to the exam questions, education writer Anne Wheelock, Boston College Professor Walter Haney and Salem State College Professor Clarke Fowler managed to find enough discrepancies in the scores themselves (coupled with interviews of test-takers) to declare the test an unfair indicator of teacher preparation...