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INTEGRITY is an online application that performs detailed analyses of multiple-choice assessments. The comprehensive, easy-to-use reports generated by INTEGRITY offer unique professional development opportunities to clients striving to create quality assessments for their students. INTEGRITY also provides leading-edge collusion (cheating) detection features that allow clients to investigate the academic integrity of students taking multiple-choice tests.

  • Evaluate the performance of multiple-choice test items used on assessments
  • Access interactive reports designed with both the novice and the expert user in mind
  • Improve assessments by targeting identified problem items
  • Investigate and maintain the academic integrity of examinees by using reliable
    statistical collusion detection methods
  • Licensed clients select their own user name and private password to securely
    access the system from anywhere in the world via the Internet
  • Using a simple interactive wizard, users are then able to submit jobs (multiple- choice test data files) to INTEGRITY for analysis
  • Most optical mark recognition (OMR) or optical character recognition (OCR) scanner machines easily produce data files from bubble sheets for use by INTEGRITY
  • INTEGRITY performs a range of sophisticated analyses and outputs a number of detailed, high-quality reports, usually in under one minute
  • Users can specify in advance the reports they wish to receive
  • All reports are securely archived for the user and can be accessed at any time
    during the license period

INTEGRITY offers clients an unparalleled level of innovation, performance, and accuracy. Investigating how an assessment performs can shed light on where more instructional focus is needed, how the quality of assessments can be improved, and where there are gaps in student learning. INTEGRITY is geared to help educators achieve these goals

INTEGRITY an online tool for assessment analysis and collusion detection
Information at the test level presents an overall picture of how the assessment is performing
Detailed item and test performance summaries include relevant recommendations for addressing identified problem areas
The difficulty and discrimination of each item is reported and displayed graphically
An interactive glossary, a quick start guide to interpreting results, and the frequently asked questions section support users in understanding all aspects of INTEGRITY
  • INTEGRITY provides detailed, user-friendly reports that highlight cases of potential violations of academic integrity.
  • Educators can find much-needed answers to how well groups/classes of students and groups of test items are performing, especially for assessments that are frequently reused.
  • INTEGRITY also helps individual educators, administrators, and large-scale testing organizations to effectively measure the quality of their assessments
Detailed written summaries of item and test performance
Five collusion detection methods are used to investigate potential test collusion
Clearly labelled histograms quickly expose collusion
Conduct analysis for different groups (e.g., males versus females)
Conduct analysis for different writing centres (classes)
Examinee-level reports provide raw test scores, percentages, and percentile ranks
Conduct analysis at the subscale (curriculum strand) level
Statistical summaries are provided for a number of different measures
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