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Whether the assessment is designed to take place in person, in a traditional classroom setting - or online using exam creation software, anticipating security issues is essential for ensuring a test’s validity and reliability. Here are some tips.
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Prevent Cheating With the Following Tips
Prevent Cheating With the Following Tips
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Prevent Cheating With the Following Tips
Overview
1. Randomize Your Questions 2. Apply Restrictions 3. Balance Objective and Subjective Items 4. Give Multiple Tests
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Prevent Cheating With the Following Tips
Randomize Your Questions Using varied ques.on and answer sequences: § Reduces the likelihood of chea.ng § Can be accomplished by using so>ware solu.ons like Test
Generator which offers administrators six randomiza.on op.ons.
Test creators should consider:
Making a pool of ques.ons from which construct randomized exams -‐ grouping them by ques.ons type, such as true/false, mul.ple choice, or short answer.
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Apply Restrictions When administrators create a test online
They can choose from a variety of security features that impose restric.ons of the test-‐taker during an exam.
The window of .me permiJed for the exam is controlled using start/stop seKngs, and administrators can ac.vate a dual-‐login feature that permits online proctoring by an official.
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Apply Restrictions Test so>ware should: • Allow administrators to disable Copy/Paste, Print • Close func.ons on par.cipants’ computers, while limi.ng
naviga.on to Forward only. Addi.onal security features include: • “accept first answer only,” • an administra.ve op.on to shut down a test at any .me if there
is suspicion of chea.ng.
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Balance Objective & Subjective Items Achieving a balance between objec.ve and subjec.ve ques.ons is: • The best prac.ce for most assessments • Helps counter any threat to validity posed by chea.ng. Answers to objec.ve items, like true/false or mul.ple choice can be • Easily duplicated • Shared.
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Balance Objective & Subjective Items Subjec.ve tasks like wri.ng an essay, analyzing a case study, or building a model online : • Are much more difficult to share because they produce
individualized results • Tend to reveal deeper, more nuanced levels of knowledge
Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Give Multiple Tests Another prac.cal recommenda.on is: • to provide numerous tests through the assessment period -‐
rather than one super-‐exam.
This approach allows them to gather mul.ple examples of student work, rather than one sample which may be tainted by chea.ng. Numerous, shorter tests will: • reveal a more authen.c picture of test-‐taker competency over
.me • allow administrators to tweak and adjust security measures
along the way. Source: Test Generator – Top Tips for Preventing Cheating
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Prevent Cheating With the Following Tips
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