Andrew Balch

  Test security isn’t one-size-fits-all. It means more (or less!) than locking down content or banning calculators. What should it mean for your assessments? Here, we’ll address a few practical questions that move beyond common checklists. Are they the right goals for your programme? What does secure actually mean?We often mean that test takers:• have not […]

Last time, we looked at the question of test security in general. Today, we’ll tackle a key (and much-discussed!) issue for many testing programmes: Test content exposure and theft – what it means, how it happens and what you can (and can’t!) do about it. What do we mean by test content exposure and theft? A reasonable