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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Education |
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Routledge research in education.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Research on Test Fraud Detection and Prevention; 3 Cheating: Some Ways to Detect it Badly; PART I Similarities in Response Patterns; 4 Relationships of Examinee Pair Characteristics and Item Response Similarity; 5 A Parametric Approach to Detect a Disproportionate Number of Identical Item Responses on a Test; 6 Detection of Non-Independent Test Taking by Similarity Analysis; PART II Macro Level Cheating |
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7 Local Outlier Detection in Data Forensics: Data Mining Approach to Flag Unusual Schools8 Macro Level Systems of Statistical Evidence Indicative of Cheating; 9 A Bayesian Hierarchical Linear Modeling Approach for Detecting Cheating and Aberrance; PART III Answer Changing Behavior; 10 Patterns of Examinee Erasure Behavior for a Large-Scale Assessment; 11 AYP Consequences and Erasure Behavior; 12 An Exploration of Answer Changing Behavior on a Computer-Based High-Stakes Achievement Test; PART IV Detection of Aberrant Responses |
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13 Identifying Non-Effortful Student Behavior on Adaptive Tests: Implications for Test Fraud Detection14 A Method for Measuring Performance Inconsistency by Using Score Differences; PART V Multiple Methods of Detection; 15 Data Forensics: A Compare-and-Contrast Analysis of Multiple Methods; 16 Using Multiple Methods to Detect Aberrant Data; 17 Test Security for Multistage Tests: A Quality Control Perspective; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests. Recent reports of widespread problems with state student accountability tests and teacher certification testing have raised questions about the very validity of assessment programs. While there are several books that specifically detail the issues of test security cheating on assessments, few outline the statistical procedures used for detecting various types of potential test fraud and the associated research findings. Without a significant research literature base, the new gener |
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Print version record |
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Cheating (Education) -- Prevention -- Methodology
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Cheating (Education) -- Prevention -- Statistical methods
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Educational tests and measurements.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Educational tests and measurements
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Amy.
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| ISBN |
9781134650606 |
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1134650604 |
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