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COTS 2013

COTS 2013 took place in Madison, Wisconsin on October 17-19, 2013.

University of Wisconsin Center for Placement Testing hosted COTS 2013 in partnership with the University of Kansas Center for Educational Testing & Evaluation  and Caveon Test Security.


*The original name for the conference in 2013 was "The 2nd Annual Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud Conference" before the scope of the conference was expanded.

Download the COTS 2013 Program

2013 COTS Program (pdf)

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Presentations

 Below is a list of presentations made available by conference attendees.  

Dennis Maynes: A Probability Model for the Study of Similarities between Test Response Vectors (pdf)Download
Steven G. Viger, Shiqi Hao, and Dong Seo: An Initial Exploration into the Use of Erasure Analysis Results to Target Monitoring and Investigations (pdf)Download
Wim J. van der Linden and Charles Lewis: Bayesian Checks on Cheating on Tests (pdf)Download
Mark Albanese and James Wollack: Cheating on Tests - A Threat to Response Validity (pdf)Download
N. Scott Bishop: Not so NEAT? Evidence of Fraudulent Preparation on Internal Anchor Items (pdf)Download
Kyoungwon Lee Bishop and Christopher Neil Stephens: Detecting Unusual Item Response Patterns Based on Likelihood of Answer (pdf)Download
James Wollack and Carol Eckerly: Detection of Test Tampering at the Group Level (pdf)Download
Deborah J. Harris, Chi-Yu Huang, and Rya Dunnington: Establishing Baseline Data for Incidents of Misconduct in the Next Generation Assessment Environment (pdf)Download
Dmitry Belov: Identification of Test Collusion by the Methods of Information Theory and Combinatorial Optimization (pdf)Download
Leonardo Sotaridona, Arianto Wibowo, Irena Hendrewan: Item-Level Analysis of Wrong-to-Right Erasures (pdf)Download
Jaehoon Seol and Jonathan D. Rubright: The Impact of Test Characteristics on Kullback-Leibler Divergence Index to Identify Examinees with Aberrant Responses (pdf)Download
Cengiz Zopluoglu, Troy Chen, Chi-Yu Huang, Andrew Mroch: : The Performance of Statistical Indices in Detecting Answer Copying on Multiple-Choice Examinations Using Dichotomous Item Scores (pdf)Download
J. Michael Clark III, William P. Skorupski, and Stephen T. Murphy: Using Nonlinear Regression to Identify Unusual Performance Level Classification Rates (pdf)Download
XIN LUCY LIU, VINCENT PRIMOLI, CHRISTIE PLACKNER: Utilization of Response Time in Data Forensics of K-12 Computer-Based Assessment (pdf)Download
Marc J. Weinstein, Esq.: When Numbers are not Enough - Collection and Use of External Information to Assess the Ethics and-or Professionalism of Examinees Suspected of Test Fraud (pdf)Download

2013 Hosts

2013 Sponsors

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