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Title: Identifying the Unauthorized Use of Examination Material.
Authors: Wood, Timothy J.1 twood@mcc.ca, St-Onge, Christina2, Boulais, André-Philippe1, Blackmore, David E.1, Maguire, Thomas O.1
Source: Evaluation & the Health Professions. Mar2010, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p96-108. 13p. 3 Charts.
Subject Terms: *Examination answer sheets, *Examinations, *Disclosure, *Student cheating, *Standardized tests, *Ability testing, *Guidelines, Outliers (Statistics), Unauthorized use, Prevention, Security systems
Abstract: Item disclosure is one of the most serious threats to the validity of high stakes examinations, and identifying examinees that may have had unauthorized access to material is an important step in ensuring the integrity of an examination. A procedure was developed to identify examinees that potentially had unauthorized prior access to examination content. A standardized difference score is created by comparing examinee ability estimates for potentially exposed items to ability estimates for unexposed items. Outliers in this distribution are then flagged for further review. The steps associated with this procedure are described and followed by an example of applying the procedure. In addition, the use of this procedure is supported by the results of a simulation that models the use of unauthorized access to examination material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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