Posted on 05/18/12 by Caveon
Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security Lately, I have been bemused by reports of “cheating investigations” which have uncovered “pervasive test fraud” in school systems throughout the country. The investigations were data-mining enterprises which found anomalous data. [Data mining is the intensive review of a large amount of data looking for “interesting” [...]
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Posted on 02/24/12 by Caveon
Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security The Reader’s Digest had a humorous anecdote in the January 2012 issue. A marine recruiter helped a color-blind recruit memorize the order of the colors on the test to help him pass the physical. When shown the test page during the physical exam, the young man [...]
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Posted on 01/20/12 by Caveon
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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Posted on 12/21/11 by Caveon
Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security I am a great fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories. And, I am not alone. Arthur Conan Doyle is consistently among the top ten downloaded authors at Project Gutenberg. A while ago I wondered: “What does Sherlock Holmes offer toward data forensics inference concerning cheating?” I [...]
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