Test Security and Integrity Flashcards
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A testing organization uses 'item overexposure controls' in a CAT program. What is the main purpose of this practice?
Answer: To limit how frequently any single item is administered so it remains secure
Overexposure controls cap how often an item can be selected, reducing the risk that high-frequency items become known through braindumping.
Under the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, who bears primary responsibility for maintaining test security?
Answer: The test developer and sponsoring organization
The Standards place primary responsibility for designing and enforcing security protocols on the test developer and sponsoring organization.
An examinee whose scores are flagged for statistical anomalies should FIRST be:
Answer: Notified and given an opportunity to respond per the program's due process procedures
Due process requires that flagged examinees be informed of the concern and given a fair opportunity to respond before any adverse action is taken.
Which situation would MOST likely require a full security investigation rather than a routine incident report?
Answer: Multiple examinees from the same testing site show identical wrong-answer patterns
Identical wrong-answer patterns across examinees from the same site suggest systematic cheating or score manipulation, warranting a formal security investigation.
What is the purpose of using 'anchor items' (items that appear across multiple test forms) from a security perspective?
Answer: They allow equating of scores across forms but must themselves be kept highly secure
Anchor items enable score equating across forms, but because they appear repeatedly, their exposure would undermine the equating process and compromise score comparability.
A psychometrist is asked to escort an examinee with a medical accommodation to a separate room. What security step is MOST critical in this scenario?
Answer: Maintaining continuous supervision throughout the administration
Continuous supervision in a separate room ensures the accommodation does not inadvertently create an opportunity for unsupervised access to prohibited resources.
Score cancelation policies should be applied:
Answer: Consistently and according to pre-established, documented criteria to ensure fairness
Pre-established, documented criteria for score cancelation protect due process and ensure decisions are defensible and equitably applied.