Purpose: Self-efficacy belief procures teachers to root for each other's development in some
issues such as ameliorating new methods to conduct much more effective teaching. A …

We develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines information on
unexpected test score fluctuations and suspicious patterns of answers for students in a …

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at the problem of cheating on
assessments (tests) across all levels of the American educational system. It is organized …

The rising reliance on testing in American education and for licensure and certification has
been accompanied by an escalation in cheating on tests at all levels. Edited by two of the …

Cheating detection in large-scale assessment received considerable attention in the extant
literature. However, none of the previous studies in this line of research investigated the …

Researchers frequently use machine-learning methods in many fields. In the area of
detecting fraud in testing, there have been relatively few studies that have used these …

A bivariate lognormal model for the distribution of the response times on a test by a pair of
test takers is presented. As the model has parameters for the item effects on the response …

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the implementation and acceptance of remotely
proctored high-stake assessments. While the flexible administration of the tests brings forth …

A statistical test for detecting answer copying on multiple-choice items is presented. The test
is based on the exact null distribution of the number of random matches between two test …

Data mining methods have drawn considerable attention across diverse scientific fields.
However, few applications could be found in the areas of psychological and educational …