The detection of cheating on E-exams in higher education—the performance of several old and some new indicators

J Ranger, N Schmidt, A Wolgast - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we compare the performance of 18 indicators of cheating on e-exams in higher
education. Basis of the study was a field experiment. The experimental setting was a …

Test Administration, Security, Scoring

AS Cohen, JA Wollack - Educational measurement, 2006 - books.google.com
Administration and scoring are at the heart of maintaining the integrity of an examination. It is
the standardization of the administration and scoring that ensure that the test scores can be …

Cheating and incentives: Learning from a policy experiment

C Martinelli, SW Parker, AC Pérez-Gea… - American Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We use a database generated by a policy intervention that incentivized learning as
measured by standardized exams to investigate empirically the relationship between …

Using deterministic, gated item response theory model to detect test cheating due to item compromise

Z Shu, R Henson, R Luecht - Psychometrika, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Deterministic, Gated Item Response Theory Model (DGM, Shu, Unpublished
Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010) is proposed to identify …

Similarity, answer copying, and aberrance: Understanding the status quo

C Zopluoglu - Handbook of quantitative methods for detecting …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides a historical and technical overview of statistical methods proposed to
detect unusual response similarity and aberrant response patterns. It describes a simulation …

Suggestions for combining psychometric-based and supervised classification methods to detect cheating in online exams

BB Alkan, M Kumartas - Behaviormetrika, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, with the spread of large-scale online exams, the need for new
methodological approaches to detect test cheating has increased. There are many …

On the Integrity of Online Testing for Introductory Statistics Courses: A Latent Variable Approach.

A Fask, F Englander, Z Wang - Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015 - ERIC
There has been a remarkable growth in distance learning courses in higher education.
Despite indications that distance learning courses are more vulnerable to cheating behavior …

Detecting and preventing cheating in exams: Evidence from a field experiment

T Cagala, U Glogowsky, J Rincke - Journal of Human Resources, 2024 - jhr.uwpress.org
This work examines how to detect, document, and prevent plagiarism in exams. First, to
identify and quantify plagiarism, we propose methods that compare similarities in multiple …

Educator cheating and the statistical detection of group-based test security threats

D Maynes - Handbook of test security, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The 21st century has been a time of both unprecedented growth and turmoil in largescale
paper and pencil testing. Nowhere has this been more apparent than within the world of …

Investigating the impact of compromised anchor items on IRT equating under the nonequivalent anchor test design

DP Jurich, CE DeMars… - Applied Psychological …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The prevalence of high-stakes test scores as a basis for significant decisions necessitates
the dissemination of accurate and fair scores. However, the magnitude of these decisions …