【新SAT资讯】路透社深度调查SAT作弊：这是利益和原则的博弈

在中国维护版权更加困难。

例如，在阿里巴巴集团旗下的淘宝网等中国网站上，有据称是美国过往SAT试题复件的资料进行广告推销。最近对淘宝的一项研究发现，过去几年内至少有11个卖家在该网站上销售多种版本的SAT试题。一些广告甚至带有据称为试题册的照片，还有人在广告中自称拥有过往试题的正确答案。

被问及这些广告时，阿里巴巴的一位发言人表示淘宝网会下架侵犯版权的产品。“我们正在采取措施来下架侵权产品”和规范卖家行为，该发言人说道。

新考试，老问题

全新改版过的SAT考试一经推出，就意味着充斥着过往试题材料的旧机经过时了。

今年3月，美国大学委员会宣布将禁止不是学生的人员参加在美国举行的第一场新考试——该措施意在“防止安全违规”。这样一来，美国之外的培训机构的教师就无法通过报名参加考试来直接搜集有关新版SAT考试内容的情报了。这项政策将会适用于大部分考试日期。

然而，其他弱点依然存在。ETS的安全人员数量很少：虽然该机构有时会雇用承包商，但是20多名ETS安全人员要应对美国大学委员会在世界各地的考试事务。

ETS去年开始用上锁的箱子保护试题安全，但是这套系统并非总是奏效。去年6月SAT考试在台湾举行之后，台北欧洲学校的工作人员将试题册和答题纸放进上锁的箱子，然后将它们送至当地的一家ETS货运代理商处。根据这所学校与ETS之间的电子邮件，这些箱子抵达美国时丢失了两本试题册。

这些箱子并不涵盖整条供应链。在美国监考SAT的两名管理人员说，他们在高中考场没有拿到箱子。一位ETS发言人表示，箱子是“在选定的地点”引入的。

美国大学委员会最大的弱点，也许就是保持重复使用新考试的版本。这种风险在改版的SAT考试于3月5日首次举行时显而易见。

这场考试之后，美国考生在线上对新考试进行了详细的讨论，而亚洲培训机构大军又跑过来对此加以利用了。

(文章来自：多知网)

附College Board回复原文：

A note to our members regarding today’s Reuters articles

Today, Reuters published two stories about international test security, focused on the College Board.

We agree that the challenges of test security internationally are escalating. Like many technology and publishing companies who are protecting patents and copyrights, we’re facing cartel-like companies in China and other countries that will stop at nothing to enrich themselves. These bad actors will continue to lie, cheat, and steal to the detriment of students who work hard and play by the rules.

The College Board is not perfect; we did our best with the information we had at the time. We can and should do more. In fact, we have recently taken more aggressive actions to secure the exam internationally, including canceling an administration in China. We continue to balance widening access with protecting the exam. We recently refused entry to the first administration of the redesigned SAT to a number of high-risk registrants — many of whom make a living violating security protocols. In the future, we will need to do even more.

We have been working with Reuters on these stories since summer 2015. During that period, we’ve made College Board leadership available for multiple interviews and shared more details about test security than we’ve provided any other news organization. We’ve been transparent with Reuters in an effort to make sure its readers better understand all that we do to protect the integrity of the SAT internationally and ensure the validity of the test scores we report. In the spirit of full transparency, we are sharing here the [Opens in New Window]detailed letter we sent to Reuters with the facts of our decision-making.

Even as we recognize where we need to do more, we are so proud of the new SAT and its impact on students. This is a time of remarkable, positive change for our century-old organization. In early March, more than 460,000 students took the redesigned SAT, which better reflects what students are learning in the classroom and connects them with distinct opportunities such as free practice tools and college application fee waivers.

We are especially grateful to Cyndie Schmeiser and Stacy Caldwell for leading the successful transition to the redesigned SAT. We should all be proud of the very real impact we are having on the lives of students.

We will continue to work with our members to expand educational opportunities for students everywhere in the world while doing all that we can to protect those students from the bad actors who lie, cheat, and steal for personal gain.

By The College Board

03/28/16