She began to see a gap between her student’s standardized tests scores and those of her colleagues, which led her to believe that she lacked good teaching skills. However, she began to notice inconsistencies between her new student’s abilities and their standardized test scores from the previous year. Students who had been “exceeding expectations” from the year before would come into her classroom unprepared. When she brought up her concerns to the principal, she was told that the students must have been good guessers.