Recent content by Steely Mike

Unlike the state of New York, I passed! :multiplespotting: (But, at least they came through on their Monday promise...)

My thoughts are with the State Board. May they find the mental and physical resolve to somehow press the "Validate" button today.

I think we'll definitely get results by Christmas, guys!!! Editor's Note: I actually hired somebody to write and administer the above reply back in October, but that person wrote the reply on a laptop in Albany. He asked if he could just press the "Add Reply" button himself, but I told him...

Our exams have been graded since NCEES released them to the boards. The "validation" process does not involve grading or adjusting the cut score... it involves unnecessary bureaucracy so some state boards can feel like they have some degree of control over the process (controlling the release...

sigh.

Meanwhile, at the state board office...

In that case, they probably need to waste even more time (and tax dollars) by having an Official Board Meeting (cue important-sounding sound effect) to authorize said button-clicker to click the button. I assume they'd be pretending to carefully review the statistics for the FE/PE/PS results...

It's not NCEES's delay at this point... The NY board has to "validate" the results, which in all likelihood means somebody with appropriate authority has to login to the NCEES website, pretend to review the statistics, nod approvingly, and then click an "Approve" button. Why the person quoted...