Data Forensics is essential for assessing the test security threats to your program and protecting the validity of your exams. In addition to being one of the best sources for discovering test security threats and weaknesses, data forensics provides the evidence you need for taking action when your exam's security has been breached.
An incident has been uncovered in a classroom and you want to understand the truth about what occurred, and whether or not the incident was isolated or widespread.
Using Data Forensics, it is possible to illuminate which test results should be trusted, and which results may require additional scrutiny.
During the routine monitoring of a state-wide test, Caveon's data forensics team detected a school that had a cluster of tests with similar response patterns and a high pass rate.
The unusual results prompted the state education agency (SEA) to send in investigators, who discovered a “test killer” booklet of harvested questions and answers that had been used to artificially inflate some students’ scores. They confiscated the booklet, and pass rates returned to normal.
This was a test security success story, but Caveon's data scientists couldn't help but wonder: what would have happened if the test killer had never been found? Could they pinpoint wrongdoing on its own?
Caveon experts took up the challenge to find out if our data forensics could uncover the individual test killer responsible for the security breach using only data. The results were compelling.