Report: TSA says giving test answers was within guidelines NEW YORK (AP) =97 A Transportation Security Administration investigation=20 reportedly found that giving baggage screeners the answers to certification= =20 test questions in advance was within the agency's curriculum guidelines.=20 The investigation was conducted after Newsday reported that several=20 screeners said they were read questions and answers for multiple-choice=20 questions that were on a test at LaGuardia Airport in December. The TSA=20 probe, which concluded last month, found that 22 of the 25 questions on the= =20 final exam were also on lesson quizzes given during a week of training,=20 Newsday reported Wednesday. The quizzes, which were open book, were given=20 after each of five lessons, and the final exam was made up of questions=20 from the quizzes, the probe found. TSA Administrator James Loy said in a=20 letter to Sen. Charles Schumer that there was no wrongdoing because=20 "training was conducted as prescribed by TSA curriculum guidelines." TSA=20 spokesman Mark Hatfield told Newsday that reading questions during training= =20 "is based on standard teaching and testing practice." Screeners were=20 required to pass the test to be certified in using machines that detect=20 explosives in checked baggage. Airports have been required to pass all=20 luggage through such machines since Dec. 31. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Mas Site: www.tntisland.com/tntrecords/mas2003/ Site of the Week: http://www.natalielaughlin.com/ TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************