How to Prevent Cheating

In a market flooded with English level tests, both online and offline, the need for a secure exam environment is paramount. Despite the proliferation of high-quality images, many online language tests lack a secure exam software infrastructure, leading to unreliable results.

Our extensive research reveals that without a robust security framework encompassing monitoring, detailed logging, proctoring, full-screen enforcement, systematic randomization, shuffling, and the ability to run multiple timers at both client and server sides, instances of cheating increase by 12 times.

Key Security Features

• Webcam Proctoring: Optionally, exams can be monitored via webcam surveillance, incorporating video recording or picture-taking during assessments.
• Full-Screen Enforcement: Users can be compelled to maintain full-screen mode during the exam, restricting the opening of other tabs or applications.
• Multi-Variation Testing (Repeatability): A fundamental condition for test security, this method ensures consistency, validity, and reliability by presenting candidates with an equal number of questions of varying difficulty levels but from different question sets.
• Shuffling Options: Crucial for test security, the platform provides various shuffling options, including the order of choices, questions, and sections within a test.
• Navigation Options: Security is enhanced by restricting navigation options, allowing test takers to follow only the predefined section and page order, preventing previewing of upcoming questions.

Test Management:

• Test Type: Combining multiple-choice and open-ended questions, tests are created in alignment with measurement and evaluation criteria, ensuring scope validity based on the TEST PLAN.
• Time Limitations: Both page-specific and total test time limitations are applied, constituting a cohesive test security approach in online test applications.
• Date Restrictions: Flexible date restriction settings enable the definition of general availability, unique date ranges for each assessment step, and individualized availability dates for candidates.

Multi-Variation Testing in GELT and GESWE:

Both GELT and GESWE employ multi-variation testing methods, addressing operational and security-based challenges during recruitment processes. This feature allows candidates facing technical issues during assessments to retake the exam with a different set of questions while adhering to the same TEST PLAN and standards.

Enhanced User Experience:

• Shuffling and Navigation Options: Offering critical security measures such as shuffling order and navigation restrictions, ensuring a fair and secure testing environment.
• Email Invitations with Tracking: Testinvite streamlines the invitation process with an efficient email invitation module, allowing for easy and fast communication with candidates or students, complete with tracking capabilities.

Date Restrictions:

• General Date Range: Set a general date range for the entire assessment.
• Step-Specific Date Ranges: Determine different date ranges for each step within the assessment.
• Individual Candidate Availability Dates: Create distinct availability dates for each candidate.

At Testinvite, our commitment to secure online assessments goes beyond the conventional, providing organizations with a comprehensive and sophisticated platform to uphold the integrity of English proficiency evaluations.