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Where Did All the Data Go? Internet Security for Web‐Based Assessments
Author(s) -
Shermis Mark D.,
Averitt Jason
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00089.x
Subject(s) - web application security , the internet , computer science , focus (optics) , world wide web , internet security , internet privacy , computer security , web development , information security , security service , physics , optics
The purpose of this article is to enumerate a series of security steps that might be taken by those researchers or organizations that are contemplating web‐based tests and performance assessments. From a security viewpoint, much of what goes on with web‐based transactions is similar to other general computer activity, but the recommendations here focus on what can be done to avoid the loss, compromising, or modification of data collected by or stored through the Internet.