Written by: Jamie Mulkey, Vice President, Caveon Test Development When was the last time you had a really fabulous dining experience? I mean, a really memorable meal? Was there great food? Wonderful conversation? At a price that wasn’t equivalent to a car payment? When I think of a great dining experience, I have several criteria [...]

Written By: Dr. John Fremer, Ph.D., President, Caveon Consulting Services My long-term friend and assessment colleague, Doug Rindone, who I have known from his days with the Connecticut Department of Education, was talking about how he evaluated whether a security incident was serious enough to warrant a thorough investigation.  “To me it came down to [...]

Written By: Dr. David Foster, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO, Caveon Test Security Great news! Caveon just expanded its services by buying Catalyst Test Improvement Services, a company that has been quietly authoring, cloning and editing items for Fortune 100 companies for more than ten years. The acquisition gives Caveon a running start in its plan [...]

Written By: David Foster, CEO & Founder, Caveon Test Security Next month, on the 23rd and 24th of May at the University of Kansas there is going to be a very important conference. For the first time ever people are getting together to present and discuss principles of data forensics. Data forensics, the statistical detection [...]

Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security Last Sunday, a team of journalists at the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) published a series of stories describing a gain-score analysis that they had conducted with the intent of uncovering cheating in schools. There were 69,000 schools from over 3,000 districts represented in the analysis. The [...]