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Ross, Linette P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One of the most serious forms of cheating occurs when examinees have item preknowledge and prior access to secure test material before taking an exam for the purpose of obtaining an inflated test score. Examinees that cheat and have prior knowledge of test content before testing may have an unfair advantage over examinees that do not cheat. Item…
Descriptors: Testing, Deception, Cheating, Identification
International Journal of Testing, 2016
The amount and severity of security threats have increased considerably over the past two decades, calling into question the validity of assessments administered around the world. These threats have increased for a number of reasons, including the popular use of computerized and online technologies for test administration and the use of almost…
Descriptors: Testing, Information Security, Guidelines, Deception
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing. Executive Summary
Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators

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