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| December 16, 2004 |
| Dear Associate, |
Mass cheating on the CSAT in South Korea continued to dominate this week's cheating news. Over 400 students were involved in the cheating scandal and almost 300 test scores have been invalidated. Police investigators sorted through 280,000 cell phone text message to discover the collusion and have indicted 182 test takers. This incident definitely proves that cell phone use during a major test, is a major problem.
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| Usually my next issue of this e-mail would be out during the holiday break, but since I'll be spending time with my family rather than with my computer I'll write again the first week in January. Until then I hope you have a great holiday season! |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security
801-208-0103 ext. 102 |
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1 > Exam Cheating Scam Suggests Corporate Level of Sophistication
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea
...The roles in this crime were divided into four levels -- those who organized the crime, students who provided answers, those who paid money to receive answers, and middle men outside the school who assisted in the operation... |
2 > Republic of Exam-Machines
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
...It is now known the Korean educational system has been smeared by a well-organized nationwide cell phone exam cheats made up of three parties: skilled test-takers, transmitters, and receivers. Students involved in this cheating fraud allegedly maneuvered this fraudulent scheme by transmitting correct answers between test-takers and receivers through mediators using a cell phone text messaging function... |
3 > Education Ministry goes after cheaters
Joongang Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
...The ministry has received a list of 400 names of test-takers who police identified as playing a role in cheating schemes. The list included 374 who used text messaging on mobile phones to answer test questions, while the others involved persons who took the test under assumed names.... |
4 > A Struggle of 18 Days with 280,000 Text Messages
Computer Crime Research Center - Ukraine
...The amount of data handed over to the investigation team was roughly 280,000 cases that consisted of numbers from one to five, sorted out from 300 million text messages sent on the test day. “In the beginning of the probe, we didn’t think that many illegal acts would be committed. However, as we found snowballing messages suspected to be used in cheating, my team and I were stunned.”... |
5 > Gateway case teaches the right lesson
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
...two students told school officials that they suspected some of their classmates might have obtained test answers in advance. Suspicions were heightened after school officials got the results back from the testing organization Nov. 15 and discovered that several students had perfect scores in one section of the test where the national average was only 70 percent.... |
6 > Plagarism on the rise, study finds
Daily - University of Washington - Seattle,WA,USA
...As part of a study in 2003, Donald McCabe, university management professor at Rutgers and founding president of the Center for Academic Dishonesty at Duke, surveyed 18,000 students from 23 campuses nationwide. Of the nearly 16,000 undergraduates, 38 percent had engaged in one or more instances of cut-and-paste Internet plagiarism in the past year. This is a considerable increase from the 10 percent who admitted to this same act in a similar study two years earlier.... |
7 > Tech cheating turns professors into sleuths
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
...The creative use of technology by some college students to cheat on tests and plagiarize papers is compelling professors at Cal Poly to become high-tech detectives in an increasingly sophisticated struggle for academic integrity.... |
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