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Entries from November 2007

A site rich in links to current articles about cheating in the digital age

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Caveon Test Security Services contracts testing security services to schools . Caveon owes much of its business to the high stakes testing environment created by NCLB legislation. This is a company that uses sophisticated proprietary methods to detect cheating on tests. For example, a red flag might go up if certain patterns emerge, such as [...]

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Usability and the Digital Divide

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I stumbled-upon one of the foremost experts in the field of web design and usability in searching the topic “digital divide.”  Dr. Jakob Nielsen’s main site  http://www.useit.com/ contains a complete education in best practices of web design.  And, here’s the bonus:  the man puts into practice what he preaches.  Everything I have read, so far anyway, has been written in a [...]

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