Test Cheating: A Worldwide Phenomenon
Status: Archived Subject: General Testing As high-stakes standardized exams spread across the globe with more occupations and institutions requiring high scores on one-shot tests, the incidence of reported cheating increases accordingly. In Bangladesh, for instance, 7,000 students were expelled for cheating on final exams in the nation’s universities. Riots broke out when police tried to […]
Teacher Test Cheating
Status: Archived Subject: University Testing At least 52 prospective teachers in five southern states have had their scores on the PRAXIS licensing exam, made by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), canceled after an FBI investigation of an apparent test cheating ring. Six test-takers were indicted along with four individuals who allegedly organized the scheme. According […]
ETS Loses Cheating Arbitration
Status: Archived Subject: University Testing The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has been rebuked by an independent arbitrator for invalidating a student s test score without substantial evidence. ETS had accused Ken Haslip, Jr., a University of Southern California football recruit, with cheating on the SAT after an anonymous informant claimed he had copied answers. Unlike […]
Chicago Cheating?
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The validity of Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) has been called into question by reform advocates who question the impact of coaching and cheating. In addition to making the ITBS the focus of summer school, after school, special tracks and transition schools, […]
Fact Sheet: "Tests, Cheating and Educational Corruption"
A PDF of the Fact Sheet: “Tests, Cheating and Educational Corruption” is available here. it is currently only available in PDF. Attachment Size Cheating_Fact_Sheet_8-17-11.pdf 253.79 KB
FairTest on the Atlanta Cheating Scandal
FairTest Op-Ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/when-put-to-a-test-testing-culture-flunks/nQShs/ FairTest Op-Ed in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2011-03-11-editorial11_ST1_U.htm
GMAT Cheating Scandal Illustrates Computerized Testing Vulnerability
Status: Archived Subject: University Testing FairTest Examiner, July 2008 More than 6,000 business school applicants who used Scoretop.com to prepare for the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) may face cancellation of their scores because the site posted actual exam questions while they still were being administered. The incident demonstrates a fundamental flaw of computer adaptive […]
ETS and Test Cheating
Status: Archived Subject: University Testing Despite much publicized efforts by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to discourage cheating on its exams, including the persecution of apparently innocent students (see Examiner, Summer 1994, Summer 1992, and Spring 1992), the testmaker ignored internal warnings about security problems in its computer adaptive Graduate Record Exam (GRE), according to […]
More Testing Foul-Ups, Cheating
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing In Georgia nearly 600,000 students were spared from having to take the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) in April after printing errors were discovered in the exam. The problem stemmed from previously used practice questions getting mixed with new secure items and printed together. The state was in the process of […]
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