This week I discovered DefeatSchool.com, a website dedicated to helping students cheat on tests. From the site's homepage, "Learn how to cheat in school and not get caught. These pages will show you exactly what to do in order to successfully take the backdoors to education and cheat in school by giving you the most comprehensive library of cheating techniques." Check out article #2.
Are your test files out of their cabinets having a party when you leave the building each night? It may sound strange, but there are physical security measures that should always be undertaken to maintain the integrity of your testing program, Don't miss our next Caveon webinar: Under Lock and Key: Conducting a Physical Security Audit. Join John Fremer and Jamie Mulkey as they discuss ways to maintain a secure physical environment for: test items, documentation, and policies surrounding your testing program. Click here to register.
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1 > Putting Tests to the Test
Caveon providing an answer to administrators' security needs
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
...But checking for fairness can be a daunting task. Caveon notes that about 20,000 North American testing programs administer nearly 125 million tests for qualification, selection and advancement of people in education and business. That's where its founders saw a need for improved test security. ...
2 > How to Cheat in School
DefeatSchool.com
...Education is a journey we must all pursue – a journey in which we must take all the paths, all the corners, and all the forks we encounter to reach our ultimate goal: Graduation. Throughout the journey however, it is essential to understand the concept of reaching these goals with minimum effort and accepting maximum merit for them. One must be cheating in school to make the journey easier and worthwhile....
3 > Cheating on IT Exams May Cast Doubt on Their Value
ComputerWorld
...The FAQ page of a China-based Web site promises to help its customers get IT certifications “with your least effort.” On the right side of the page, a shaded box makes an even more direct pitch: “Order our gunman service and you will pass. Obtain your certications [sic] at home without testing by yourself.” The site and others like it are examples of an IT certification exam piracy market that is operating in plain sight. People looking to cheat on exams can obtain copies of them or simply offshore the work to so-called gunmen, who operate mostly in Asia and will take tests for clients at a cost of up to several thousand dollars. ...
4 > Test-taking teens are cheating to a different tune
Victoria Advocate - Victoria,TX,USA
...anning baseball caps during tests was obvious - students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away, school officials say....
5 > Exam misbehaviour leaps 60pc in year
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
...More than 300 high school pupils were caught cheating in NCEA exams or disrupting them, but fewer than half were punished by losing marks, new figures reveal....
6 > Winona ISD Had Possible TAKS Security Breach
Tyler Morning Telegraph - Tyler,TX,USA
...A Texas Education Agency Office of Inspector General preliminary investigation report cites significant reasons to believe improprieties occurred in administering the 2005 TAKS test to a Winona High School 10th-grade class, although the superintendent is refuting the charge....
7 > High-Stakes Testing: Helping or Hurting?
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
...So every state has its own state test scores going up (through smoke and mirrors, drill and practice, cheating, forcing kids out, etc--all described in our book) and this allows all politicians say "see, we are holding the schools accountable" and many folks are happy. ...
8 > 34 Duke students busted for cheating on exam
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
...Nearly three dozen graduate students in Duke University's business school face steep penalties for cheating on an exam, school officials said. The incident, in which officials determined 34 students collaborated on answers of an exam, is the largest cheating incident ever at Duke's Fuqua School of Business....
Testing Industry Events
National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education & Certification (NASDTEC)
June 3-6, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah Marriott City Center Hotel
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) National Conference on Large-scale Assessment (NCLSA)
June 17-20, 2007 Nashville, Tennessee
National College Testing Association (NCTA)
August 1-3, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah Hilton Hotel
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