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Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
When Gerald W. Bracey heard that John Fremer, a long-time friend and Educational Testing Service psychometrician, had retired and now worked for Caveon.com, a firm dedicated to detecting cheating, Bracey was amused. Snooping for cheats seemed like a trivial pursuit compared to the lofty testing enterprises he had undertaken at ETS. No more. Bracey…
Descriptors: Ethics, Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation, High School Students
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
There are only three South Korean universities that count in Koreans' eyes and they enroll 15,000 students, chosen from 873,000 applicants (1.7%), based on the results of a national exam. The night before the national exam, many mothers pray all night in temple. (They also prayed the previous 99 nights, but not so long.) The country comes to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Educational Change, National Standards
Wineburg, Sam – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Portfolios, demonstrations, exhibitions, displays, and video attestations all challenge traditional test theory, which is focused on individuals in isolation. However, teachers are expected to work collaboratively and resolve problems within a social context. Instead of limiting collaboration when evaluating a teacher's site-based portfolio,…
Descriptors: Cheating, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods