Detecting Cheating by Analyzing Erased Answers

February 16th, 2010 admin

I had no idea this was being done, but erased answers are now analyzed on standardized tests. Schools with a high number of wrong-to-right changes across multiple tests are presumed to have cheated: teachers changing the answers after the students are done….


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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