Written By: Dr. John Fremer, Ph.D., President, Caveon Consulting Services My long-term friend and assessment colleague, Doug Rindone, who I have known from his days with the Connecticut Department of Education, was talking about how he evaluated whether a security incident was serious enough to warrant a thorough investigation.  “To me it came down to [...]

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Written By: Christie Zervos, Director of Operations, Caveon Test Security Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.  This is an old saying that may sound confusing because cheaters may win in the moment.  However, in the long run, they may feel embarrassed, guilty, feel they have let themselves or others down; and, worse, they have not [...]

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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: David Foster, CEO & Founder, Caveon Test Security Today reports came out regarding the most recent senate hearing about the SAT proxy testing scandal in New York state. Several individuals from College Board, ACT and ETS, along with others from organizations with authentication methodologies and technologies, provided testimony at the hearing. Senator LaValle [...]

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Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security My boss may be upset with this essay, because if I persuade you to quit cheating on tests Caveon could go out of business in the same way that we would have less need for police if crooks would quit law-breaking. But, I suspect many of [...]

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