LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former fourth-grade teacher in northeastern Nebraska is facing a year’s suspension from teaching for correcting punctuation and capitalization errors on some of her students’ statewide writing tests.

Michelle Jacobsen also was the district assessment coordinator for Allen Consolidated Schools. She resigned after a school investigation showed she made the changes on eight of her students’ rough draft portions of the test.

The exam for fourth-graders is a two-day process. Students first write rough drafts and then write their responses to a prompt in the test booklet.

Officials say Jacobsen admitted to changing the tests, because she felt pressure for her students to do well.

School officials notified state education officials and the district’s fourth-grade writing tests results were tossed.

A phone number listed for a Michelle Jacobsen in Allen was out of service.