Test Security Trends: SAT and ACT cheaters may encounter image authentication
An image authentication system has been developed by Stony Brook scientists, who claim it cannot be fooled. Lawmakers have been given a demonstration of the system. This is a biometric authentication system. Other systems in use for biometric authentication of test takers include finger print scans (Prometric), palm-vein scans (Pearson VUE), and keyboard dynamics (Kryterion).
The claim of absolute security is rather ludicrous. Unless the photograph is attached to the answer sheet, test security can easily be circumvented by determined cheaters.
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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.
“A novel system that’s absolutely unbreakable for securing the identity of a student taking the SAT exam,” said Dr. James Hayward.
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