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OverviewThe rising reliance on testing in American education and for licensure and certification has been accompanied by an escalation in cheating on tests at all levels. Edited by two of the foremost experts on the subject, the Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Detecting Cheating on Tests offers a comprehensive compendium of increasingly sophisticated data forensics used to investigate whether or not cheating has occurred. Written for practitioners, testing professionals, and scholars in testing, measurement, and assessment, this volume builds on the claim that statistical evidence often requires less of an inferential leap to conclude that cheating has taken place than do other, more common sources of evidence. This handbook is organized into sections that roughly correspond to the kinds of threats to fair testing represented by different forms of cheating. In Section I, the editors outline the fundamentals and significance of cheating, and they introduce the common datasets to which chapter authors' cheating detection methods were applied. Contributors describe, in Section II, methods for identifying cheating in terms of improbable similarity in test responses, preknowledge and compromised test content, and test tampering. Chapters in Section III concentrate on policy and practical implications of using quantitative detection methods. Synthesis across methodological chapters as well as an overall summary, conclusions, and next steps for the field are the key aspects of the final section. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory J. Cizek (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) , James A. Wollack (University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.859kg ISBN: 9781138821811ISBN 10: 1138821810 Pages: 428 Publication Date: 30 September 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction SECTION I – INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 – Exploring Cheating on Tests: The Context, the Concern, and the Challenges Gregory J. Cizek and James A. Wollack SECTION II – METHODOLOGIES FOR IDENTIFYING CHEATING ON TESTS Section IIa – Detecting Similarity, Answer Copying, and Aberrance Chapter 2 – Similarity, Answer Copying, and Aberrance: Understanding the Status Quo Cengiz Zopluoglu Chapter 3 – Detecting Potential Collusion Among Individual Examinees Using Similarity Analysis Dennis D. Maynes Chapter 4 – Identifying and Investigating Aberrant Responses Using Psychometrics-Based and Machine Learning-Based Approaches Doyoung Kim, Ada Woo, and Phil Dickison Section IIb – Detecting Preknowledge and Item Compromise Chapter 5 – Detecting Preknowledge and Item Compromise: Understanding the Status Quo Carol A. Eckerly Chapter 6 – Detection of Test Collusion Using Cluster Analysis James A. Wollack and Dennis D. Maynes Chapter 7 – Detecting Candidate Preknowledge and Compromised Content Using Differential Person and Item Functioning Lisa S. O’Leary and Russell W. Smith Chapter 8 – Identification of Item Preknowledge by the Methods of Information Theory and Combinatorial Optimization Dmitry Belov Chapter 9 – Using Response Time Data to Detect Compromised Items and/or People Keith A. Boughton, Jessalyn Smith, and Hao Ren Section IIc – Detecting Unusual Gain Scores and Test Tampering Chapter 10 – Detecting Erasures and Unusual Gain Scores: Understanding the Status Quo Scott Bishop and Karla Egan Chapter 11 – Detecting Test Tampering at the Group Level James A. Wollack and Carol A. Eckerly Chapter 12 – A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Detecting Aberrant Growth at the Group Level William P. Skorupski, Joe Fitzpatrick, and Karla Egan Chapter 13 – Using Nonlinear Regression to Identify Unusual Performance Level Classification Rates J. Michael Clark, William P. Skorupski, and Stephen Murphy Chapter 14 – Detecting Unexpected Changes in Pass Rates: A Comparison of Two Statistical Approaches Matthew Gaertner and Yuanyuan (Malena) McBride SECTION III – THEORY, PRACTICE, AND THE FUTURE OF QUANTITATIVE DETECTION METHODS Chapter 15 – Security Vulnerabilities Facing Next Generation Accountability Testing Joseph A. Martineau, Daniel Jurich, Jeffrey B. Hauger, and Kristen Huff Chapter 16 – Establishing Baseline Data for Incidents of Misconduct in the NextGen Assessment Environment Deborah J. Harris and Chi-Yu Huang Chapter 17 – Visual Displays of Test Fraud Data Brett P. Foley Chapter 18 – The Case for Bayesian Methods When Investigating Test Fraud William P. Skorupski and Howard Wainer Chapter 19 – When Numbers Are Not Enough: Collection and Use of Collateral Evidence to Assess the Ethics and Professionalism of Examinees Suspected of Test Fraud Marc J. Weinstein SECTION IV – CONCLUSIONS Chapter 20 – What Have We Learned? Lorin Mueller, Yu Zhang, and Steve Ferrara Chapter 21 – The Future of Quantitative Methods for Detecting Cheating: Conclusions, Cautions, and Recommendations James A. Wollack and Gregory J. CizekReviewsToday, cheating increasingly presents ever-changing challenges to the integrity of test results used for admissions, graduation, certification, professional licensure, and accountability.ã Cizek and Wollack are two of the most recognized and cited experts on educational test security, and the Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Detecting Cheating on Tests provides the most comprehensive treatment of statistical methods for detection that simply must be incorporated into any large-scale assessment program used for high-stakes decisions. --Wayne Camara, Senior Vice President, Research, ACT This edited volume has taken the importance of test security in test validation to a different level. It reflects the maturity of the field of cheating detection, whereby statistical probabilities are no longer presented as inferential leaps into vague, colluded, remote chances of cheating behavior; rather, they are presented using precise empirical evidence that identifies specific cheating behaviors on which one can act. The authors bring together comprehensive knowledge on increasing data forensics and methodologies alongside legally presentable evidence to help reduce the fraudulent use of test results. The book will sit atop my bookshelf for years to come. --Ardeshir Geranpayeh, Head of Automated Assessment & Learning at Cambridge English Language Assessment, University of Cambridge, UK Today, cheating increasingly presents ever-changing challenges to the integrity of test results used for admissions, graduation, certification, professional licensure, and accountability. Cizek and Wollack are two of the most recognized and cited experts on educational test security, and the Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Detecting Cheating on Tests provides the most comprehensive treatment of statistical methods for detection that simply must be incorporated into any large-scale assessment program used for high-stakes decisions. --Wayne Camara, Senior Vice President, Research, ACT This edited volume has taken the importance of test security in test validation to a different level. It reflects the maturity of the field of cheating detection, whereby statistical probabilities are no longer presented as inferential leaps into vague, colluded, remote chances of cheating behavior; rather, they are presented using precise empirical evidence that identifies specific cheating behaviors on which one can act. The authors bring together comprehensive knowledge on increasing data forensics and methodologies alongside legally presentable evidence to help reduce the fraudulent use of test results. The book will sit atop my bookshelf for years to come. --Ardeshir Geranpayeh, Head of Automated Assessment & Learning at Cambridge English Language Assessment, University of Cambridge, UK Author InformationGregory J. Cizek is the Guy B. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. James A. Wollack is Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Educational Psychology Department and Director of Testing and Evaluation Services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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