Are Exam Questions Known in Advance? Using Local Dependence to Detect Cheating.

Cheating is a common phenomenon in high stakes admission, licensing and university exams and threatens their validity. To detect if some exam questions had been affected by cheating, we simulated how data would look like if some test takers possessed item preknowledge: Responses to a small number of...

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Main Authors: Stefan Zimmermann, Dietrich Klusmann, Wolfgang Hampe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5131967?pdf=render