Category: Dennis Maynes

Improvement Required

Posted on 03/30/12 by Caveon No Comments
improvement

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 [...]

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Busted! Tricks can be played by anti-cheaters, too

Posted on 02/24/12 by Caveon No Comments
Flat Tire

Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security The Reader’s Digest had a humorous anecdote in the January 2012 issue. A marine recruiter helped a color-blind recruit memorize the order of the colors on the test to help him pass the physical. When shown the test page during the physical exam, the young man [...]

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Ten Reasons Why You Should Quit Cheating

Posted on 01/20/12 by Caveon No Comments
Cheater Ashamed

Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security My boss may be upset with this essay, because if I persuade you to quit cheating on tests Caveon could go out of business in the same way that we would have less need for police if crooks would quit law-breaking. But, I suspect many of [...]

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