The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas,
Caveon Test Security and ACT, Inc.
announce:

Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud

May 23-24, 2012
Lawrence, Kansas

With additional support from College Board, Data Recognition Corporation, Educational Testing Service, Graduate Management Admission Council, Law School Admission Council, Pearson, and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment

Test fraud strikes at the heart of test validity; without honest results, appropriate inferences cannot be drawn from test scores. At the same time that the producers and users of test results must be vigilant in protecting the integrity of examination results, the right of examinees to receive fair treatment must also be safe-guarded. Over the years, testing organizations have developed and used statistical methods to look for extremely unlikely results and thus, raise questions that could possibly lead to the invalidation of test results. However, there has been little presentation of these approaches or supporting research in conferences and peer reviewed journals. Moreover, without a significant research literature base, the new generation of researchers have little opportunity or incentive to improve on existing methods.

By presenting methods currently used by testing organizations and research on new methods, the Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud offers an important forum for psychometricians to examine a variety of methods. With the increasing use of technology-based testing, additional data are available for identifying potential test fraud, and several papers will focus on this emerging area.

Conference presentations will focus on several different themes including the following:

• Answer changing behaviors (including erasure analysis)
• Within-administration aberrant pattern detection (including evidence related to lack of effort as well as fraud)
• Unusual response agreement detection
• Aberrant pattern detection with data outside the administration (including evidence from previous administrations and non-test data)
• Approaches to detecting potential fraud on technology-based tests (including analysis of response latency patterns)

Papers will be grouped thematically into six sessions, each having a discussant. Discussants include Ron Hambleton, Paul Holland, and Howard Wainer.

Thanks to the generous support of sponsoring organizations (ACT, Inc., Caveon Test Security, College Board, Data Recognition Corporation, Educational Testing Service, Graduate Management Admission Council, Law School Admission Council, Pearson, and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment), conference registration is $75, which includes bus transportation options to and from Lawrence from the Kansas City International airport, transportation from Lawrence hotels to the conference facility, and all meals, from breakfast on May 23 to lunch on May 24, including a buffet reception the evening of May 23.

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