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| December 3, 2004 |
| Dear Associate, |
This week it was difficult to trim the list of cheating stories. There are stories from all over the world. In South Korea over 100 students were caught using cell phone text-messaging to cheat on the College Scholastic Ability Test and numerous others have been accused of proxy test-taking. At a university in India student leaders attempted to help students improve their test performance by openly distributing answers and offering assistance to students while they were taking an exam. Even worse, separatists in India's north-eastern state of Manipur shot six male teachers in the leg for allegedly helping students cheat on exams. |
| On a more positive note a professor at Sacramento State University has developed "a simple statistical tool that any instructor can use to detect cheating on multiple-choice Scantron exams." It's great to see other efforts to detect cheating through statistical analysis. |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security
801-208-0103 ext. 102 |
1 > Police expand cheating probe
Joongang Ilbo - Seoul, South Korea
...New evidence points to cheating using mobile text messages in other places besides Gwangju for the national college entrance examination, police announced yesterday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they reviewed text messages sent during the College Scholastic Ability Test on Nov. 17 and found 550 messages containing number sequences that could have been answers to multiple choice questions....
Related stories:
Twenty-seven Proxy Exam Takers Discovered in Seoul
College Students Also Involved in Exam Cheating |
2 > At LU, student leaders openly help examinees to cheat
Indian Express - New Delhi, India
...They openly distributed the answers and assisted the students taking the test. And when some started throwing the guide-books outside the window following the announcement of a squad team’s arrival, the student leaders personally reassured them, telling them to carry on cheating as ‘‘everything is fine and nobody is coming’’.... |
3 > Prof targets student cheats with statistical savvy
Sacramento State University (press release) - Sacramento,CA,USA
...Mogull was inspired by a recent real-life classroom teaching experience, in which two of his students missed the same 26 questions out of a total of 100 questions over four different exams. That got the statistician’s heart pumping – but not because he was angry. “It was clear in my mind that they had cheated. That wasn’t the question,” Mogull says.... |
4 > 'Cheaters never prosper' adage finds new meaning
Daily Nebraskan
...He said he would cheat in his general education classes, but he wouldn’t cheat in his major’s classes because he said he wants to learn from them. “When I cheat for tests, I write the answers on my leg or my arm,” he said. “If I cheat, it’s in classes that I don’t care about.”... |
5 > 'Exam-cheat' Indian teachers shot
BBC News
...Separatists in India's north-eastern state of Manipur have shot six male teachers in the leg for allegedly helping students cheat in exams. Two women teachers were beaten with sticks for the same offence, the rebels of the Kanglei Yana Kan Lup group said.... |
6 > Technology: Boon or bane? Cell phones, PDAs spur debate in schools
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
...school officials say, hand-held electronic devices make it possible for students to pass information silently via cell phone text-messaging or faxing, or by using the radio wave or infrared technology in personal digital assistants such as Palm Pilots.... |
7 > Is Your Child a Cheater?
Family MSN.com
...Even good students can be tempted to cut corners from time to time. And the practice of cheating is almost as old as school itself, though its manifestations have changed over the years.... |
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