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June 17, 2005 |
| Dear Associate, |
Last week 8.67 million Chinese students took part in the "largest-scale" college entrance exam in the world. Only one-in-four will get a college spot so students do everything they can to maximize their chances of success. The pressure surrounding the exam has turned cheating into an underground industry. |
| Police around China recently cracked 28 cases in which suspects advertised text message exam answers for sale. You might remember that last year 3,100 students across the country received punishment for some violation of test policy and 110 exam staff workers were also punished for helping the cheaters, with 11 of them receiving prison sentences. |
| Speaking of large-scale, next week I'll be attending the National Conference on Large-scale Assessment in San Antonio, Texas. As always, I'll be sure to take lots of pictures. In my next e-mail I'll have a link to view the photos. |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security |
1 > China combats hi-tech cheating in college entrance exams
Xinhua - Beijing,China
...China's annual college entrance exams, which will have more than eight million exam-takers this year, will witness a nationwide campaign against hi-tech cheating,said Lin Huiqing, a senior official with the Ministry of Education(MOE) here on Monday....
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2 > State Tests Thrown Out for Cheating
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
...Hundreds of Louisiana students have been accused of some form of cheating on a state standardized test.... |
3 > Matriculation put to test more than students
Xinhua - Beijing,China
...Most noticeably, the educational authorities' ability to ensure fairness of the largest-scale exam in the world is at test -- guarding against cheating has always been a big issue. In the high-tech era, traditional cribbing is being updated with more advanced means, such as mobile phones, electronic scanning machines, and still more to come.... |
4 > Govt unable to rule out train driver exam cheating
ABC Online - Australia
...John Brogden claimed in Parliament that train drivers going through the training course had access to exam questions and answers ahead of sitting the test. He produced a CD-ROM which a whistleblower had told him was given to trainee drivers and contained the exact exam questions they would face.... |
5 > Shanghai dumps cabs to prevent exam foregone conclusion
EducationGuardian.co.uk - UK
...Shanghai's biggest taxi company will stop using cabs with the number four in their licence plate to ferry students to the annual college entrance exams which start tomorrow, the China Daily has reported. The word for "four" sounds like the word for "die" in Mandarin and Cantonese and the same as "failure" in the Shanghai dialect.... |
6 > Toilet ban relaxed for college entrance testees
China Daily - China
...Test organizers warned students against drinking too much water before the test, for fear of going to the bathroom during the test. The ban caused widespread controversy, and critics described it as "inhumane"...
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There are three key areas that you should be tracking, if your program uses computer based testing. They are test scores, data forensics, and response latency. The first two also apply to paper-n-pencil tests. First and foremost, it’s essential that you monitor any changes in test scores over time. You can choose to either track the scaled test score or you may want to simply monitor pass rates in the case of licensure and certification testing. I recommend the development and review of a report that includes an analysis of scores over time. You can look at the overall test performance across geographies as well as countries and test sites, in the case of licensure and certification; and school districts, schools and test administrators in the case of education. You may also want to consider conducting a retake analysis to determine if there are any extreme changes in test performance by examinees over time.
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