Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating: Promoting Integrity in Assessment

Because cheating increases in direct proportion testing as surely as smuggling does in proportion to tariffs, Cizek (educational measurement and evaluation, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) offers teachers, principals, school board members, and policy makers a collection of information on the rising practice and its prevention. He writes in a conversational tone unbroken by citations, and includes practical illustrations of the sort he, and presumably other teachers, have encountered in classrooms. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gregory J. Cizek is Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His background in the field of educa­tional assessment includes five years as a manager of licensure and certification testing programs for American College Testing (ACT) in Iowa City, Iowa, and 15 years of teaching experience at the col­lege level, where his teaching assignments have consisted primarily of graduate courses in educational testing, research methods, and statistics. He is the author of over 200 books, chapters, articles, conference papers, and reports. His books include Handbook of Educational Policy (Academic Press, 1998); Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); Setting Performance Standards: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001); and Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating (Corwin Press, 2003). Dr. Cizek has served as an elected member and vice president of a local school board in Ohio, and he currently works with several states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education on tech­nical and policy issues related to large-scale standards-based testing programs for students in grades K—12. He began his career as an ele­mentary school teacher in Michigan, where he taught second and fourth grades.