What a shock: Smart guys with affluent parents cheat on tests for fun and profit. It’s true that money can’t buy good morals or respectability. A fancy paycheck and fancier home can’t insulate your children from their own foibles, fallibility and foolish choices.
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The new security measures were developed in response to the NY college-test cheating scandal where college students took the ACT and SAT for high school students.
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Inside the applied DNA sciences lab at Stony Brook University researchers are hard at work inventing and perfecting a system that can prevent cheating on SAT and ACT exams.
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Clearly, the SAT scandal continues to make waves. In New York, legislators will have the opportunity to vote whether cheating on educational tests is a felony offense.
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- Is it really easy to cheat on the SAT? No one knows how many students actually cheat.
- ETS claims a very good success rate with catching cheaters, but such a claim must be supported by rates of false positives and false negatives. The principal of Great Neck Schools says cheating is widespread across the country. But, what does “widespread” mean? Can it be quantified?
“We launched Identica to enhance the security of our exams, which are widely used for immigration and citizenship, higher education and business, and need the highest levels of integrity,” Sarah Corcoran, Director at Cambridge Assessment stated.
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-The recent SAT scandal suggests that facial recognition may have been used to prevent or at least verify instances of exam fraud. The NY DA and senators have raised the issue as one that ETS and the College Board should consider.
-Such technologies require investment, but maybe the time is ripe for the testing industry to be using these technologies.
- It would be reasonable to suppose that the security of the ACT could be breached using proxy test takers, just as was done with the SAT.
- The District Attorney does not intend to let up with the investigation. The arrests could include those who took tests for others, those who paid, and those who created fake IDs.
