Utah Company Helps Crack Down on LSAT ‘Brain Dumps’
A Utah company that uses statistics to crack down on test cheating is helping police websites that leak questions for the Law School Admission Test.
The company, Caveon Test Security, uses “data forensics” to analyze answer sheets on standardized tests in a quest to find cheaters, the New York Times reports. The company looks for identical wrong answers, unusually large gains and illogical patterns in which test-takers do better on difficult questions than easy ones.
The company does work for the Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT, the story says. Caveon searches the Internet for “brain dumps”—websites where students who have taken the LSAT discuss the exam. Then it sends letters to the websites asking them to take down the material, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
