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June 8, 2006 |
| Dear Associate, |
In just a few weeks Caveon will be at the National Conference on Large-Scale Assessment in San Francisco. To prepare for the conference we are conducting an online survey of State Education Test Security. If you’re involved with state assessments please take a few minutes to respond to our short ten question survey.
This month Caveon will be hosting a webinar covering Legal Implications of Test Security. Caveon’s General Counsel, Bob Hunt, will give the presentation. The webinar will examine the rights of testing programs to invalidate test results and take other remedial actions when cheating is suspected. To learn more about the webinar click here.
Unbelievable, but true! I came across a press release for K-Swiss Stripe Shifter sneakers this week. The Stripe Shifter shoe has five stripes on each side. Each stripe is changeable in color and height, creating unique combinations that can be used to convey a personal message like, “I’m single,” or “Peace,” or even “the answer is ‘D’.”
I kid you not. The company is actually touting how students use the sneakers’ moveable stripes to cheat on tests! What’s next? Cell phone companies bragging how their phone’s slim design is optimal for text messaging during tests?
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Best regards,
Don Sorensen
VP of Marketing
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Cheating With Sneakers Threatens Final Exams
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
...The sneakers that are used for this, the so called Stripe Shifters, have five stripes on the side of the shoe. Through the use of a shifting system the stripes can be changed in colour and in height. By linking a unique code to the position of the stripes, the kids have developed a new language. ... |
2 > Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech
New York Times - United States
...faced with an array of inventive techniques in recent years, college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to outwit would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies — cutting off Internet access from laptops, demanding the surrender of cellphones before tests or simply requiring that exams be taken the old-fashioned way, with pens and paper... |
3 > Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
...We need to face the facts. If I need a quick answer outside of school and can’t quite remember what I need to know, I will Google the topic, or I will call someone, or text someone, or e-mail someone. One of these sources will, if I know how to operate this technology efficiently and effectively, provide me with the essential information. That’s not cheating, that is life.... |
4 > Taiwan bans invisible-ink pens from exams
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
...Since an invisible-ink pen uses fluorescent ink, a student can write invisible notes on a piece of paper and take the paper to the exam. During the exam, he or she can then read the notes by shining the ultraviolet flash -- which is at the other end of the pen -- onto the paper. The notes become visible when they are exposed to ultraviolet light.... |
5 > China launches campaign against cheating in college entrance exams
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
...Hi-tech counter measures are being taken by a number of universities to prevent hi-tech cheating during China's annual national college entrance exams which will be taken by about 9.5 million people this month, Ministry of Education (MOE) said Wednesday in Beijing.... |
6 > Exam monitors go online
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
...A TEAM of monitors will be searching for key words related to the national college entrance exam around the clock starting today to ensure questions aren't leaked online ahead of the test on June 7 to 9, officials with the Shanghai Educational Examination Authority said. ... |
7 > Cheating turns high tech
Independent Florida Alligator - Gainesville,FL,USA
...University students around the nation have begun using cell phones, personal data assistants, preprogrammed calculators, iPods and the Internet to cheat on tests and assignments.... |
8 > Analysis suggests cheating on TAKS
The Dallas Morning News
...The Caveon report did not name any of the schools it found, but it did provide examples without identifying them. In one elementary school, 45 of the 262 answer sheets were exact duplicates of one another. An additional 29 students had perfect scores. In all, 141 answer sheets were flagged by the analysis, and Caveon says the chances of such a pattern happening naturally would be less than 1 in 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion – a 1 followed by 72 zeros.... |
9 > TEA takes steps to improve test security
Abilene Reporter
...The most recent development, the data forensic report by Caveon, shows what Caveon calls ''statistical inconsistencies'' at 702 out of 73,793 classrooms or 1 percent of the classrooms in which testing occurred. Those classes were located in 609 schools, which represent 8.6 percent of the schools involved in testing.... |
10 > Psst! A student’s guide to exam cheating
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
...A tutor for matriculating and intermediate students, Allaudin Siddique, told Daily Times Wednesday, the second day of the exams, that there are basically two categories of corrupt students: those who totally depend on cheating and those who seek assistance in the exam hall.... |
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