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A class action lawsuit was filed by hundreds of teachers who received incorrect test scored on their teacher licensing exams from Educational Testing Servce (ETS). ETS has now agreed to pay over $11 million in damages to settle the case, compensating individuals who lost job opportunities, potential pay and sufered after receiving the bad test scores.

Case Involving Errors in Teacher Test Is Settled

New York Times - 3/14/2006 11:19 PM

The exams, known as the Praxis series, are designed, administered and scored by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. They are used by 39 states and United States jurisdictions to determine a person's eligibility to be licensed as a teacher.
 
The lawsuit was filed by test takers and involved a part of the test series given from January 2003 to April 2004. The settlement was given preliminary approval this week by Judge Sarah S. Vance of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
 
According to the settlement papers, the errors came to light after a state that had used the tests questioned the results. When the testing service investigated, it found that it had graded some answers too stringently during the period in question. About 27,000 people who took the exam received lower scores than they should have, and 4,100 of them were wrongly told they had failed.
 
E.T.S. said in a statement yesterday that both sides had agreed not to comment on the settlement, except to confirm that an agreement h
 
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