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 [...]

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Written by: Dr. John Fremer, Ph.D., President, Caveon Consulting Services “Insert Quarter, Avoid Klingons” is cited in Walter Issacson’s biography of Steve Jobs as the complete instructions for an electronic game that caught the attention of Jobs.  According to Issacson, Jobs was very taken by the notion that having a product that you could use [...]

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Written By: Steve Addicott, Vice President, Caveon Test Security The internet is the greatest knowledge sharing and communication innovation in our history.  It is pervasive and changing constantly, at electron speed. As the tools and technologies that transform our work and communication evolve, so must the manner in which we use them.  The internet of [...]

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Written By: John Fremer, President, Caveon Consulting Services How do individuals react when a question is raised about the possibility that testing rules were violated?  Most responses can be divided, like “all Gaul” if you have ever had high school Latin, into one of three categories: I am innocent! (or my son, daughter, teacher, or [...]

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How can you prevent cheating on state assessments or detect it, if it occurs?  I had the pleasure of presenting suggestions on this topic to the members of the Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment (TILSA) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) on November 1st at their meeting in Phoenix. I reproduce below [...]

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