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: 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: 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 [...]
Read moreHow 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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