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 [...]

Written By: David Foster, CEO & Founder, Caveon Test Security Next month, on the 23rd and 24th of May at the University of Kansas there is going to be a very important conference. For the first time ever people are getting together to present and discuss principles of data forensics. Data forensics, the statistical detection [...]

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 [...]

Written By: Steve Addicott, Vice President, Caveon Test Security According to some sources, the phrase above originated in ancient China.  And, depending upon who you ask, it reflects either a curse, or a blessing.  The phrase rings loudly these days for all kinds of reasons–political, economic, environmental, etc.  This is particularly true in the testing [...]

Written By: A collaborative effort from Caveon’s Web Patrol team “I never hear from them anymore.” When was the last time you thought that about someone you know? When was the last time you were the person a friend said that about? In our busy lives we get pulled in so many directions in today’s [...]