Plan Outlined to Prevent Houston TAKS Cheating

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Caveon No Comments

Houston Chronicle
By Jason Spencer

HISD is part of a growing number of school districts to be confronted with cheating allegations in this era of high-stakes testing where the careers of administrators and teachers ride on their students’ performance. Some school systems have taken major steps to guard against cheating.

Pittsburgh administrators hired independent monitors to oversee testing on every campus. Education officials in Indiana are finalizing a $25,000 contract with an outside firm to suggest ways to detect cheating on that state’s exams.

“We go through your processes, materials, your rules for investigating an alleged security break and we make suggestions on how to do it better,” said John Fremer, a consultant for Caveon Test Security, the Utah company hired to review Indiana’s testing procedures. “It’s for their benefit and I think that’s going to become pretty much a standard practice.”