Bugs à répétition : l'Okhlahoma suspend pour la deuxième fois consécutive les tests régionaux informatisés.

Superintendent Janet Barresi directed testing vendor CTB/McGraw-Hill to suspend testing after about 8,100 Oklahoma students experienced problems such as computers moving very slowly or freezing altogether. The disruptions affected students taking high school end-of-instruction exams and those taking tests in grades six through eight.

A similar glitch stalled testing last year in Oklahoma, as well as in Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota. Of those, Indiana also used CTB/McGraw-Hill as its testing vendor.[...]

Despite last year's problems, Barresi said the state renewed its contract with the company for more than $13 million this year in large part because there was not enough time to solicit bids and select another vendor before the tests were to be administered this spring. "We looked at it and realized there was simply no time ... to get that done and to be able to put out an assessment for this year," Barresi said.[...]

Vieux cauchemar (ou bonne excuse, au choix) d'étudiant : la veille des exams, tous vos manuels scolaires et fiches de révision disparaissent dans un incendie... C'est un peu ce qui est arrivé aux milliers d'étudiants américains qui avaient choisi CourseSmart pour afficher leurs manuels scolaires numériques. Et puis les serveurs du site ont lâché.