1 > Denied ‘right’ to cheat, students go on rampage - Sify.com
Hundreds of law students in Bihar boycotted exams and went on a rampage on Saturday after they were not allowed to carry books and mobile phones inside the examination centre. “After the local administration including police officials deployed at the examination centre did not allow the examinees to carry books, exercise books and mobile phones into the exam hall, the students turned violent, shouted slogans and boycotted the exam,” a senior official of the home department told IANS over telephone on Saturday.
2 > Cheaters never win - unless Penn lets them - Opinion
Case in point: the OPIM 101 scandal that took place at the end of the Spring 2007 semester. Students were allowed to work in groups of up to two or three for their final case of the semester, but collaboration between groups was strictly prohibited. Once the cases were turned in, a statistical model was run over all the cases to ensure such collaboration didn’t take place.The result? As reported by the Daily Pennsylvanian in September, roughly 15 to 20 percent of Wharton’s entire class of 2010 was brought under investigation by the Office of Student Conduct for having a 60-plus-percent overlap with another group’s case.
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3 > Destined To Cheat? New Research Finds Free Will Can Keep Us Honest
Surprisingly, the link between fatalistic beliefs and unethical behavior has never been examined scientifically — until now. In two recent experiments, psychologists Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota and Jonathan Schooler of the University of British Columbia decided to explore this knotty philosophical issue in the lab, and they figured out an innovative way to do it.
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4 > Columbia Police Test-Taking Scandal | ‘Schemes of cheating’ found
It was written off as a technical glitch, a problem with a flawed training system — anything but cheating. But 21 Columbia Police Department officers admitted to cheating on online certification tests last year, helping others to cheat or knowing about the cheating and not reporting it, according to Police Department Internal Affairs documents obtained by The State newspaper.
5 > Plan to detect rogue exam results - BBC NEWS
England’s exam regulator is investigating the possibility of having an automatic alert system to detect anomalies in schools’ exam results.
6 > No phones allowed ‘within reach’ for FCATs
Ring tones will double as funeral marches for students caught with their cellphones during the upcoming round of FCAT testing.A new statewide policy requires school administrators to throw out a kid’s exam if an electronic device is “within reach.” While the rules in previous years gave principals and proctors some leeway in their punishment, “concerns based on recent security violations” have forced the state to adopt the zero-tolerance procedure, according to a state Department of Education memo to school districts.
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