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1 > ABC News: Technology Makes Cheating ‘Far More Tempting’
For many young Americans, technology has not only become an integral part of their everyday lives in the form of constant Internet access, cell phones and iPods, but it is also changing the way they cheat on tests, plagiarize papers and then share the how-to details. And educators are struggling to keep up with the latest tools and trends and reverse blase attitudes toward cheating that have spread like a viral video on YouTube.
2 > Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating - US News and World Report
Teachers, long behind in the cheating arms race, may finally be catching up. They are using new technologies, including text-matching software, webcams, and biometric equipment, as well as cunning stratagems such as Web “honey pots,” virtual students, and cheat-proof tests. The result: It appears to be getting at least a little harder for students to plagiarize from websites, text-message answers to friends during tests, or get others to do their homework.
3 > Go Ahead and Cheat - Chronicle.com
Faced with an examination that essentially grants an absolute freedom to cheat, and knowing there’s really no excuse for not being able to answer a question, most students decide the only way out is to study really hard. Their books become like journals — covered with their own scrawled insights and organized by notes of their own making. Not having a clue what the exam questions will be, they prepare for the worst — i.e., everything. Not having to memorize anything, they concentrate on synthesis and analysis. And in the process of inscribing marginalia and structuring indices, they end up remembering far more than they ever thought possible. The open-book exam is best when used sparingly, since much of its power lies in its surprise. Oh, and there’s an additional benefit. Because the professor who gives an open book exam need not worry about cheating, he or she can step outside the room during the exam and use the time to blog about the virtues of the open-book exam.
4 > In digital era, blue books still causing white knuckles - The Boston Globe
Outdated as they seem in an electronic era, blue books chug along with little challenge to their supremacy. While new software allows tests to be taken on computers, blocking Internet access to prevent cheating, most professors still hew to the tried-and-true print format. So with rare exceptions, college students take notes on computers and write papers and complete homework assignments electronically, often eschewing hard copies entirely. But when midterms arrive in late October, especially in liberal arts classes, they leave their laptops behind, take pen in hand, and try to craft thoughtful answers in a single unedited take.
5 > San Antonio Teacher Caught Helping Students Cheat | WOAI.COM
San Antonio News News 4 obtained documents from the Texas Education Agency that show several local teachers under scrutiny because they didn’t follow TAKS testing policy last spring. That includes one Northside School District teacher who said he gave his students answers all because the stress of the TAKS was too much to handle.
6 > Professors fight new forms of cheating, plagiarism - Campus News
“These students are the future and when I see cheating going on it not only makes me furious, it makes me question the culture that they are living in,” Coffey said. “They live in a culture that almost celebrates cheating. In areas such as sports and politics, cheating seems to be rewarded.”
7 > Out to beat the cheats - MBAs Guide, Postgraduate - The Independent
Do business school students cheat more than their peers in other subjects? Judging by the latest anti-plagiarism measures taken by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which runs the gold-standard entry test for business schools, you could be forgiven for thinking so. From next May, all candidates for the GMAT, which most serious applicants have to pass to get a place on an MBA course, will have to present a high-tech palm scan alongside their score to certify that they took the test.
8 > Jake Heimark ‘10: Cheating Brown - Columns
Last month, Stanford held the SOS: Stressed Out Students conference to address two worrying and linked phenomena on college campuses. First, an increasing number of students have sought mental health services for stress related to academic achievement. Second and more disconcerting, administrators have noticed an increase in cheating. As Brown students, we may think we are insulated from cheating by the Open Curriculum - but we are not.
9 > ‘No Child Left Behind’ Revokes Most-needed Funds; Punitive System Won’t Improve Schools | CafeSentido.com
No Child Left Behind turned that formula on its head, and in fact imposed a blanket system of “standardization”, which undermines local control, severely restricts the quality and scope of information available to American students, and imposes on the entire system a logic of cheating. Schools aims to “teach to the test” in order to raise scores, and even wealthy states like New Jersey are abandoning vital subject matter like social studies in order to focus on test-oriented teaching.
10 > Time for Ethics Marshals - allAfrica.com - Nigeria
Last week’s announcement of the commissioning of Special Exam Ethics Marshals came as a welcome relief. The thinking behind the idea is to address the incessant examination fraud that has afflicted us in this country for a very long time. The Marshals have the mandate to monitor the conduct of public examinations in the country.
11 > New steps to curb exam - Daily Nation
There have been proposals that exam cheats be fined Sh250,000 or be jailed for three years. The Examinations Act stipulates that cheating candidates pay a fine of Sh5,000, which is not considered to be a big enough deterrent.
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