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January 20, 2006 |
| Dear Associate, |
Last week we had big news as Dr. John Fremer was promoted to the position of President of Caveon Test Security. John brings decades of experience to the role and we all appreciate his personable demeanor and enormous “paper” Rolodex of contacts. You can read more about John Fremer's promotion on our website.
The first article listed below is from the Wall Street Journal and tells how some computer programming students are outsourcing their coding homework. I checked out the rentacoder.com site the article references, and indeed you can request any type of programming project – even homework. The author says, “The outsourcing of computer programming homework is a subset of a much bigger problem of Web-related college cheating: online term papers. It is as easy these days to buy 10 pages about the causes of the Civil War as it is to buy a song on iTunes.”
Best regards,
Don Sorensen
VP of Marketing
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Some Students Use Net To Hire Experts to Do Their School Work
Wall Street Journal - USA
..."This is homework I did not have time to study for," he said in a message on a Web site devoted to outsourcing computer projects. "I need you guys to help me." Attached was a take-home final exam for a computer class that Mr. Nightlife Lover wanted to pay someone else -- presumably, someone from a place where people can't afford a lot of night life to begin with -- to take for him.... |
2 > Cheating reports in national exams
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
...Familiar with the subject matter, the ghost test-takers register for the test and take the exam quickly. They leave and send the answers to a middleman who sends answers to the classroom to less talented test-takers who have hidden earphones.... |
3 > Debate over test at HFD heats up
Houston Chronicle - United States
...During the test, dozens of proctors roamed the aisles to prevent cheating. Security cameras watched overhead as test-takers sat facing forward in assigned seats, two to a table, with administrators positioned on an elevated stage.... |
4 > Culture of cheating should not be tolerated
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
...Said my grandson: "Cheating pervades the culture here. The students are asked to pass a myriad of impractical tests to graduate or get a good job. And it is almost impossible to do well on them if you don't cheat. ... Without cheating, the current system would come to a crashing halt, and it is way easier to let people cheat than to face the fallibility of the system, and maybe even change it."... |
5 > An early read on test Ed Dept. probe: Did B'klyn school use actual N.Y. exam for practice?
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
...City educrats are investigating allegations that some Brooklyn fifth-graders got a sneak peek at the costly new state reading exams that were given this week, the Daily News has learned....
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