1 > Most High School Students Admit to Cheating - School Library Journal
A whopping 95 percent of high school students say they’ve cheated during the course of their education, ranging from letting somebody copy their homework to test-cheating, a Rutgers University professor reports.”There’s a fair amount of cheating going on, and students aren’t all that concerned about it,” says Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at New Jersey-based Rutgers.
2 > Texas steps up security to prevent cheating on TAKS tests - Dallas Morning News
Texas testing officials are trying out a new strategy to prevent cheating on TAKS tests: Ask students to sign pledges that they won’t cheat. That’s one of several new steps the state is taking this spring to make sure scores on the state exams truly reflect what students know – and aren’t the product of cheating. Others include having teachers keep track of where each student sits and sending state monitors on surprise visits to campuses.
3 > Army to revise online courses to stop cheaters - The Boston Globe
The new measures - including randomized test questions, individual test access cards, and limits on the number of courses a soldier can take in a given period - are expected to cost millions of dollars. They are intended to combat the proliferation of Internet “sham school” sites that help students cheat, including one that offers to take the courses for soldiers in exchange for a small fee. Army training officials also hope the changes, to be instituted with an initial investment of $6 million, will deter soldiers from abusing the Army Correspondence Course Program to fraudulently rack up points toward promotions.
4 > Braindumps, Gunmen, and Cheaters (revisted) | NetworkWorld.com Community
Braindumps come in many styles, all of which are variations on the questions and answers that have been stolen from the actual exams. When we started warning people about braindumps, they were merely questions and answers or Q&A w/ explanations. They have since evolved into a much more complex and almost convincing form that many individuals would find hard to believe are braindumps. Even though they are changing in style, one shouldn’t be fooled by their evolutionary offspring, the VCE. We’ve discussed VCEs in a previous blog and will provide a link at the end of this article.
5 > Cheating Rocks Top-Tier High Schools - ABC News
“My parents would consider this cheating, but I don’t have any major problems with it,” Sam told ABCNEWS.com. “It’s school, and you’re cheating your way through the system.”Sam is typical of most American students. An estimated two-thirds of all high school students admit to “serious” academic cheating, according to a national survey by Rutgers’ Management Education Center in New Jersey.
6 > Bad behavior among teens a growing concern - News 8 Austin
A new survey conducted by Junior Achievement found 38 percent of teenagers in the United States believe it is sometimes necessary to cheat, plagiarize, lie or use violence to succeed. Twenty-four percent said it’s okay to cheat on a test, while 25 percent said violence toward someone else is acceptable on some level.
7 > Cheating in Scottish exams rose by 21 per cent last year
Cheating in Scottish exams rose by 21 per cent last year.There were 775 confirmed incidents in Scottish schools in 2007, compared with 638 in 2006.Cases of cheating via mobile phone fell from 126 in 2006 to 115 this year, while the use of notes climbed from 20 to 51, suggesting a return to more old-school methods of malpractice.
8 > Watch out! Thai exam cheat triggers phone-watch ban
Thai students will be barred from wearing watches in national university entrance exams this weekend after a student was caught cheating using a mobile phone wrist watch.
9 > A nation of cheaters
Everyone’s cheating. And apparently, on balance, they’re prospering. Students fake their way to the top. Business leaders deceive shareholders and make millions. Couples cheat on each other for sport. And athletes go for the inside edge by playing fast and loose with the rules. We are becoming a culture of cheaters and excuse-makers, researchers say. We cut ethical corners and defend ourselves by insisting that everyone’s doing it.
10 > Millionaire banker in exam scam avoids jail - Yorkshire Post
“The court simply does not know how serious a problem examination fraud of this kind may be. If it’s widespread of course it erodes the confidence the public can have in academic degrees.”Your conduct in particular must be deeply offensive to the thousands of diligent students who do work hard.”
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