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Reading the Drift Before the Workaround

Forecasting Exam-Integrity Vulnerability from Capability Trajectories

A three-cycle study regressing a capability-drift index for permitted study tools against the date each tool's first assessment-integrity workaround was reported. The drift index anticipated workaround emergence with a stable 11.4-week lead (peak cross-correlation r = 0.79), and the authors propose triggering policy review from the forecast rather than the incident.

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@misc{slop_a1psdd,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {Reading the Drift Before the Workaround: Forecasting Exam-Integrity Vulnerability from Capability Trajectories},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.a1psdd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-forecasting-exam-cheating-a1psdd/},
  version      = {1.1},
  note         = {Research poster},
}
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