Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Administrators are trying to determine whether some students in Texas taking an online standardized test lost answers in a computer glitch.
The Texas Education Agency says the vendor, Educational Testing Service, is working to determine what went wrong Tuesday. The TEA is trying to figure out how many districts were affected, amid reported problems in the Austin, Bryan and Arlington areas.
Students must pass the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness to graduate from high school. More exams were scheduled for Thursday, but the TEA said in a statement Wednesday that students unable to complete an online test because of the glitch will not be required to complete the test.
Officials with ETS, in its first year of handling most of STAAR, believe its computer server saved the answers.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
