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Board: TikTok/AI method inflated some middle‑school benchmark scores; district retested students
Summary
District presenters said a social‑media method using Chromebooks and AI produced anomalous middle‑school I‑Ready score jumps; affected students were retested and those inflated scores were removed from earlier reports.
Assistant Superintendent Amanda Payton told the board that unusually large benchmark score increases at the middle‑school level were traced to a social‑media method that allowed students to use AI during online benchmarks. "There was a TikTok video out there... they could copy their question into AI, and AI would solve it," Payton said, and district staff worked with I‑Ready to identify, retest and exclude affected cases from previously presented data.
Payton described the district's validation steps: principals pulled student records with anomalous jumps, staff administered retests, and the vendor (I‑Ready) assisted in isolating suspicious patterns. The board was told the cleaned dataset was used for the presentation and that ongoing vigilance and device security procedures are being reinforced to protect test integrity.
