Testing For Cheaters On Tests...

By Rose Scott

Atlanta, GA – Now that a panel commission has been named to oversee the Atlanta Public Schools investigation into possible CRCT test cheating the process of analyzing those tests seems daunting.
WABE's Rose Scott reports on one particular company that conducts testing investigation.

When it comes to analyzing erasure marks
It may not take the CSI efforts that you see on TV every week literally dusting each tests for fingerprints or carefully reviewing pencil marks with some high tech forensic gadget.
Instead, someone like Dr. John Fremer comes into play.
Fremer says reviewing erasure marks are unique because you have to follow the pattern of erasures from wrong to right and then the number of erasures. You take the record of the responses.

Fremer is president of Caveon Test Security based in Midvale, Utah.
He's been in the testing business since 1962.
The process starts by feeding answer sheets into a scoring program and then information is given on how many right and wrong and makes an assumption that the lighter answer was the first one.
However Farmer says out of all the industries that his company investigates Fremer says tests scores with the lowest amount is education.

Fremer says Caveon has not been contacted by the Atlanta Education Fund the group that assembled the panel however, he is interested in the job.