Be prepared to contribute to the problem in American education - Scorer Kelly Employee Review

Work can be frustrating. The work is for a company that designs, prints, and scores education standardized tests. These questions along with the scoring design and criteria are designed to inflate scores in order to meet competency levels imposed by No Child Left Behind. An example of this are math problems that are designed so that most common incorrect procedures used by students result in the correct answer. You may be tempted to lower the score on the grounds that it is clear the student doesn't have the skills to correctly answer the question. Wrong. Because the student gave the correct response and even though the student explanation shows he or she didn't know the understand the question, they still get the credit. If the Project Leaders, who are given a random sample to assess scoring accuracy, see this you, your accuracy falls. If it falls below given level, you are asked to go home and do not get to score on that question anymore. Daily qualification failure or not successfully training to score a question can get you sent home too. Not fired, but you don't get to work. Measured Progress (the company contracted by Kelly Services to do this job) is very propriety so communication devices are prohibited (probably to keep people from becoming knowledgeable of how they and the Departments of Educations of the various state who are their clients are scamming the public). If you are found with a cell phone (on or off) beyond the front desk you are immediately terminated. In the end it is kind of an academic Sweat Shop.